Narrative Art Of Bai Xianyong's Stories

Bai Xianyong is considered a remarkable talent in the field of story by Xia Zhiqing . He pays much attention to writing skills. This article tends to study his narrative point, space and time.Bai Xianyong is good at using various narrative paints. He used more personal point in his early stories and more omniscient point in his later ones. There're some shifts of points in his stories. Bai Xianyong's narrative space includes mainland, Taipei and America, etc. In his works, space does not merely refer to geographical space but is a cultural space of politics, economy, and traditional customs. He devotes different emotions to different spaces. Time in modern stories is an artistic one. As for the axis of time, there is no mention of tomorrow in Bai's stories that frequently look back to the past. For the time -span and time density, his narrative time span is relatively short while the density is .large. In other words, he usually uses short narrative time to narrate stories in a relatively long time span.