The Illusion Of Narration

China's novels saw a breakthrough in styles and techniques along with the influx of modernist thoughts from the middle 1980s. A group of representative avant-garde novels emerged in the literary circle during 1985-1989. They have eye-catching original styles and play an important role in the literary circle. This paper expounds that the avant-garde stylistic innovation is not a word game. Instead, it contains different understanding of the reality and brand-new and unique feelings about the world. Such novels overstep the traditional realism and create a subjectively real world, resulting in a inward conversion. They try to transcend the appearance of the world, penetrate into the core and seize the essence of the world through metaphysic reflections. This paper analyzes some works written by Su Tong, Mo Yan, Yu Hua and Ge Fei during the 1980s to expatiate the meaning and aesthetical signification of avant-garde styles.Chapter 1 is the introduction. It briefly introduces the causes and background for the emergence of the avant-garde school, points out some misunderstandings about the school and elaborates the research significance of this paper.Chapter 2 clarifies the definition of the avant-garde school and makes the discrimination between avant-garde and traditional opinions on reality.Chapter 3 analyzes functions and significance of novels' rhetorical techniques, explains the signification of the stylistic innovation and different understanding of the world combined with avant-garde works written by Su Tong, Mo Yan, Yu Hua and Ge Fei during the 1980s.Chapter 4 rebuts the opinion that regards the avant-garde school only superior in stylistic strategy, rectifies each kind of misunderstandings and makes a new judgment on the school.