The Narrative Of Prose And The Artistic Features Of Shen Congwen's Novels

The narrative prosification begins from Lu Xun,then it be developed by Yu Dafu and Fei Ming,and it gradually be mature until Shen Congwen.Such as Romote City and Long River,they are representatives of Shen Congwen’s novels which use the narrative prosification.Not only does they show the loose structure,short plots,blank characters and implicit expression,but also the novel’s narrative structure,narrative content and narrative perspective become more mature.On the narrative structure,narrative texts reject the causal of traditional novel,and replace them by spatial structure.Meanwhile the open structure replaces single closed structure;On the narrative content,novel theme is no longer clear,it highlight its abstract;The center of the plots and characters’ position begin to disappear,compact and complete plots do not be presented,stories become the link of texts.At the same time,compared to traditional characters in the novel,characters which created by the narrative prosification become simplified.Their images be blear,and the implication becomes symbolic.On the narrative perspective,narrative angle is no longer single,but it changes with the need of textual narration.