The Power of Narration

Fiction became an artistic form with fresh life vitality in the 1980s and 1990s,and with the emergence of such schools of fiction as avant-garde fiction,fiction of the stream of consciousness,fiction of new perception,fiction of neo-realism,etc.fiction has witnessed constant changes in the mode of its narration.From the revolution in the mode of narration on the part of Liu Su-la,Ma Yuan and Yu Hua through the fluidity of narration marked by soliloquy and confused temporal order in the novels of Wang Meng to the perceptible ecstasy of narration learned and obtained in life on the part of Mao Yan to the melancholy of low-key narration by Fang Fang,Shi Li and Liu Zhen-yun… The radiation of fiction in its narrative structure,the elasticity and tension of its language of narration,the diversity of its narrative modes and the complexity of its narrative rhythm all combine to constitute a strong power,thus having led to incessant changes in the aesthetic pattern of fiction as well as to the constant expansion of fiction in terms of its depth and width of portraying social life.