A Typical Narriative Of China's Contemporary Autobiographic Literature

In the history of China's contemporary literature, Guo Moruo has been very prominent in both poem and drama. Being a genius, however, his autobiographic literature has won great reputation. Guo in reality was an earliest writer to be conscious of writing autobiography. Autobiography of Guo Moruo including In the Childhood, Being a Student, Revolutionary Times, Song of Hongbo, was regarded as the longest autobiography in China. His works full of intricate and abundant narriative strategies in that times paved the way for his precursor in China's contemporary literature, so typical it has been.Any autobigraphy (diary included) is reminiscent, while Guo's works has become bottom-up or lost possibly because of obscure memory of truth or inflicted suffering; therefore, reorganization of Guo's autobiography based on writing time seems important to reflect his track of development and the fundamental clue of narriatives. Subsequently, this article recategorizes his autobiography into three parts on the clue of writing time rather than on the clue of historical time out of Collection of Guo Moruo (Volume in Literature: 11th-14th) (Published by Renmin Litearture Publishing House, 1992).Part One: To define narritives of Guo's autobiography. Autobiography expresses some certain reality in between truth and fiction. Authenticity interpretes the difference between autobiography and novel, so its narritives have to take personal experience into account—it is another variation from novel.Part two: To detect narritive strategies of antobigraphy in the 1920s,to sum narritive characters of early Guo's autobiography: to simplify the nuclear events in narritive structure; to presume metonymy skillfully in narritive texts; to overlap the narritive sequence; to integrate the narritive role and authentic authors; to diversify the set of cultural code so as to separate the narritive role and implied authors in contrast to ordinary autobiography; to discover alternation between denotation of time and possibility of time so as to extend perspective of narration; to combine the personal narritive and the historical narritive so as to present Guo Moruo's maturity of narration.Part three: compared with other autobiographic literature in the same times. Guo Moruo's autobiography in 1920s denotes its own speciality, full with the internal and external focus, great capability of short period and detailed narritive style which is presents fragment on the whole .