On the Narrative Experience of "Neohistory Novels"

The value and significance of either a works, a writer or a literary phenomenon can be precisely determined by being incorporated into the category of literary history and placed in the coordinate of artistic transformations and cultural context. Viewed in the process of artistic transformations of modern Chinese novels, have, for one thing, demonstrated the changes in history concepts of writers of one generation by means of the pattern of historical stories represented in the novels. For another, the profound impetus to the change of the story pattern results from another prospect in the subversive narrative revolution implemented by vanguard writers as well as from the evolution in narrative notions of contemporary Chinese novels in the 1980s. In terms of historical fictitiousness, the acknowledgement and practice of fictitiousness in novels on the part of writers have helped to attain the fictitious history rather than history concepts which have led to fictitiousness by writers. By incorporating fictitious historical stories in the novels, have broken through the traditional narrative mode of history novels and have become more appealing and readable compared with previous revolutions in narration. The historical essence and the authenticity of human subsistence mirrored in excellent have constituted an accumulation of experience in the constant quest of a writing mode to restore the truthfulness of Chinese novels since the 1980s. In the present literary arena, there is every reason to constantly scrutinize and deliberate on the narrative experience of neohistory novels.