Familiar Yan Guilai

In the history of Chinese Modem Literature, there emerged a type of novels of which point of view is the first person with the character of reminiscent narration; and the subject matters are about the writers' families and childhood. This type of novels, which are called reminiscent style novels, include Jiazu yiwaide ren(Man out of Family), Hulanhe zhuan (Biography of Hulan River), Xiaocheng sanyue(March in the Town), Hou huayuan(the Back Yard), Kerqin qianshi(Prehistory of Kerqin), Chu wen(the First Kiss), Zao chun(Early Spring), You ma/i(Childhood), etc.Because both the name and the range of subjects of these novels are obscure, in the first part, the article makes the definitions of reminiscent novels in a broad sense and the reminiscent style novels, and distinguishes between the Autobiographical novels and the reminiscent ones. In the second part, the article studies the individual cases of reminiscent style novels by the three most important writers: Xiao Hong, Duanmu Hongliang and Luo Binji with the method of the science of origination. What they recollected and what they forgot in different moods affected their individualized styles, hi the third part, the article makes an assessment, from the perspective of literary history, that the reminiscent style novel is a complement of the main stream war narration in 1940s; and these novels inherit and innovate the early ones: Gu xiang(Rometovm) and She xi(Land theatre) by Lu Xun. As a special style, they also contribute to Chinese narratology.