Form With Significance

Gefei is a pure fictionist , his novels are unique in narration and form which have made great contributions to the Chinese narrative art. He always live in the universities . Teaching and reading have guaranteed his works paying more attention to the forms . And the more important reason is that he thought "the truth in feeling" is right truth . It is the different understanding in truth that results in Gefei' s literary form experimentation .Gefei thinks writing is equal with recollection . The only theme of writing is "the content of your memory , the way of recollecting and the state of the writer in writing" . According to Gefei' s idea of fiction , this thesis trys to grasp his narrative art in three parts . Firstly , Gefei' s role in his works is a meditater , as well as a rhetorician indulging in books . He calls on the classical works constantly , names the characters in his special way , creats many mottos . All the reasons make him look like a wiser and give his languages strong bookishness . In the concrete construction of sentence , Gefei is used to arrange the phrases in good order , use the heavy and complicated modifier in a great deal , give full play to the analogy and metaphor etc. It endows his languages with individual lyric style .Secondly , in the narration of the story , the traditional plot-chain is broken up into pieces of objects and sense because the scene in memory can' t be repeated and the content of memory is intersectional and confused . The narrative details are enlarged so completely that it exceedsthe integrity and becomes the independent units with decision-making power due to the subject consciousness coming back with the opening of the sense , the employment of "duplication" , "vacancy " and different narrative angles.Thirdly, in Gefei' s view, the way to recollect is forgetting . The content forgotten goes back your consciousness in the form of dream sometimes , and appears suddenly sparked by the scene you are undergoing at times .Gefei draws his thought about time into narration and shows us a special narrative structure :close and cycle .The narrative text looks like a closed circle because the beginning is connected with the end , and the circle can roll and cycle which multiplicates the story continually.Gefei is influenced by not only the west modern fiction but also the Chinese ancient literature .According to Gefei' s exceptional gift of narrative art he shows , we have every reason to await his future writing .