Time,Memeory And Variations Of Imagination

Aestheticism is floating in disparate contexts. In retrospect, it frequently reflected the miraculous inspiration of dialectics. In the metaphase and anaphase of 1980s, the sudden rise and salience of vanguard novels for a time started a "Revolution of Narration" of format exploration in the modern literary world in China. In terms of the language form and the narrative adventure aimed at literature itself, vanguard novels not only recompose the definition of modern novels and literature itself but exalt the immanent essence of belles-lettres and the elevation of art, therefore bringing about the genuinely modern transformation of Chinese modern literature from sheer production to criticism. However, over a long period of time, vanguard novels have been regarded as a sort of formalism by critics and the far-reaching effect of "the Revolution of Narration" hasn't obtained its deserved interpretation yet. In most cases, people interpret the format exploration of vanguard novels in one dimension only from the perspective of belles-lettres' self-discipline, which ultimately leads to a frequent defilade and suspension of the complex interlink and interaction between form experiment and conformation of the society, history and consciousness as well. Virtually, self-discipline of belles-lettres' form is more a negative dialectics than an aesthetic Xanadu and it exerts the function of criticism and resistance.From the angle of cultural ideology of the vanguard novels, this article tries to put the conspicuously pioneering writer Ge Fei as an individual case and does an exploratory research. He is a writer consciously with a good self-discipline of the usage of writing styles. Not only does his narrative adventure detect the feasible borderline of modern Chinese writing but the diversity of his format exploration contains a profound implication of history and pondering over existence. To discuss his novels, it is obvious that we should place him in the magnificent vanguard culture scene, which is the starting point of his adventures. Furthermore, his writing itself is a miniature of the development or vicissitudes of vanguard novels. Time molding in narration is the major way of his innovation as well as a way of brand-new space-time experience in modern literature...