The Narrative Techniques And Strategy In Hemingway's Fiction

Ernest Hemingway was a great master of literature with high reputation in American literature history of the 20th century. In 1954, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for"good command of modern narrative art". The present study starts with the essence to explore his unique writing style in terms of narratology. In the author's opinion, Hemingway is very sensitive to and particular about narrating time, is skilled in handling the relationship between story time and narrating time, and employed fast and slow narration, zero narration, narrative interruption and smooth narration to make the sequences of time change unendingly: smooth narration as a leading tool, fast narration as a guide and slow narration as an auxiliary tool, which is one of his unique narration rhythm. Also, he has inborn sensitivity to observations which help him to unearth from different perspectives the intrinsic special characteristic:"iceberg principle"(more actions and fewer statements). In this sense, he indeed makes the narrator"stand far beyond the story". Moreover, there is a"polyphony"phenomenon of symbol, metaphor, zero writing and displacement in Hemingway's narrative fiction, because his novels are not so much rooted in realistic foundation as the ideal world artistically treated. In the ideal word, stylistic significance of"iceberg"is constructed through the use of valency, sentence form and montage; the skills get his texts to have diversity and information gaps, vacillate the stability of the stories and lead readers into a various explanation game.