"The Fantastic World Created According To Himself"

Part 1 Structure: Instrumental Ensemble of Emotion and Polt Modern novels extend the signified meaning of narration, narrating not only objective things but also subjective things. Although Shi Zhicun emphasizes the structure of sections and we can see the story frame and polt clues existing gleamingly in his novels, the writer doesn't make efforts to recount a quaint story or set up a voluminous narrative springe. Interwinded by emotion and polt, his novels turn to the inner obviously.(1) Emotion becomes the structural elementIn Shi Zhecun's novels, the interferences of mental factor and delicate changes of feelings become the structural element, instead of being expressed by character's outer action. In this two novelistic collections,"General's Head"and"One Raining Evening", most of the novels are recounted in this way: Affairs occur simply on the person, stirring up his inner confusion.Flowing with the streams of consciousness, thoughts and feelings in a melodic style elongate the lapsing of time and expand the scope of space, making the narrative rhythm slow down. The novel is full of dense emotion between the lines.(A) Interior monologue and narrator's interventionInterior monologue is the best way to represent emotional flowing process, but its form is not single. There's not only"Direct Interior Monologue"which reveals bluntly complex mentality from different consciousness layers, but also the"Indirect Interior Monologue"which is...