Contemporary War Novels:the Construction of Conflicts and Artistic Treatment

The interpersonal conflicts revealed by contemporary war novels mainly involve the interest conflicts between the nation and the individual.The national interest above individual interest is the principle in the creating of the novel,with only one or two exceptions,but the bottom line of the nation determined by the spirit of the nation has never been lost.In artistic treatment,though revolutionary war novels and the southern war novels follow the general principle,they begin to take the tragic implication into consideration,which is a new nature to display those conflicts and indicates the new trend of the war novels,withcontact ratio liningandfocus on peopleas two major methods to deal with the interpersonal conflicts after the 1980s.