The Golden Notebook's Innovation In Artistic Form

Doris Lessing adopted the ingenious innovative technique in the artistic form of The Golden Notebook. She elevated the status of work form to a new height:not only does the form serve for content; it also generates certain significance in its unique way independently.The Golden Notebook's innovation in artistic form is mainly exemplified in the following three aspects:first of all, the novel adopted a unique narrative technique which was different from traditional fictions. The Golden Notebook was described in a reticular narrative structure, which formed a sharp contrast with traditional linear narrative structure.The story of "Free Female" was narrated from longitude perspective and ""Black Notes","Red Notes","Yellow Note","Blue Note" as well as the ending part of "Golden Notes" was told from latitude perspective, so that a strong three-dimensional characteristic is manifested in this work. Meantime,the author also employed montage and collages in the creation through deliberately breaking the integrity of story narration. Meta-fiction skill was also one of Lessing's important attempting.Second, writing techniques of traditional realism, modernism, and postmodernism were perfectly integrated in The Golden Notebook. The author mainly utilized traditional realist approach to narrate the section of "Free Female", modernist approach is more or less applied in the remaining sections of Black, Red, Yellow,Blue notes and the final section of "Golden Notebook",which is featured by the two most prominent modern techniques:fantasyland and symbols.Furthermore, The Golden Notebook endowed the artistic form with more functions, the author regarded the entire novel as a drawing paper with written words and vivid pictures, in which the "disorder" form symbolizes a "chaotic" world, and thus a unique picturesque novel was illustrated with both excellent pictures and texts. The novel delivered the information of "chaotic" outside world as well as the confusion of human spirit from the "disorder" form through being assembled the "messy" collages.In addition,"collapse" and "integration" are both theme and form with reciprocal complement.The Golden Notebook itself is "a book which can bear the test of time and enjoy the best-known reputation". This novel's innovation in artistic form boasts for an important literary significance and research value.