From History To Lust

Chinese modern historical novels and contemporary new historical novel all belong to China's historical novel that are unlike traditional historical fiction novel creation form. With the development of the social history and the construct of literature itself has perfected gradually, historical novel reflects distinctive literary consciousness , and conveys close contact with the society of history and historical spirit. Modern Chinese historical novels and the new historical novel's emergence and development grow out of the independence of the historical performance of literature, this independence make modern Chinese historical novels and the new historical novel different from traditional historical novel desperately .And contemporary historical novels and new historical novel because of their social context and background theory formed different characteristics. But based on the particularity of historical document performance, the traditional historical novel, modern history novels and the new historical novel are relative together all the time, and never extinguished.Modern history novels and contemporary historical novels keep the same self-consciousness in seeking new historical concept, breaking the bondage of traditional history. They all rebel traditional historical concept and historical narrative. But they are different in how to reflect the different about the rebellion, and they have different performance of the rebellion. However, it is no doubt that modern historical novel is new historical novel's prelude, the development of new historical novel is the continuation of modern historical novel. And their difference mostly reflected in three aspects: historical concept, narrative strategies and aesthetic interest.Firstly, in the concept of history, modern historical novel admits the existence of history and the integrality of historical identity, and on this basis ,modern historical novelist make reflections on history, when the new historical novel questions all that be.The new historical novel identifies with history as a mythical symbols,and it is the result of rhetoric. Secondly ,in narrative strategies, the modern historical novel mainly inherits the narrative strategy of traditional historical novel, when the new historical novel show the dependence on, the new historical novelist use tremendous narrative skills, for instance ,fictional, virtualization, defamiliarization and hyperbole. Finally ,in the aesthetic interest, modern historical novel's aesthetic interest is poetic and unhurried, it clings to traditional aesthetic orientation, when the new historical novel marked with a kind of dysphoric emotion which is related to current reality. The new historical novel replaces the aesthetic interest with "examining the ugly". Meanwhile, in the process of develepment from modern historical novel to new historical novel, the importance of people be more and more emphasized, and in the end, it gives rise to "the desire narrates" of the new historical novel.