Studies On Narration In Li Er's Novels

The paper pointed out that Li Er is an excellent novelist with unique style in 1990s. Not in quantity, His novels are good. His novels, in terms of content, are characterized by interest and thought, in terms of writing style, his novels are of vanguard and exploratory characteristics. And in terms of types, his novels can be categorized into intellectual themes, historical themes and rural themes. Among the works of intellectuals, many subjects in daily life have taken up the main space of the narration. He aims at achieving the self-reflection and self-criticism, through the narration of trifles in daily life. In the history theme, he tried to describe the relationship between the individual and the history by introducing development of personal destiny in the context of the historical development, which subverts the traditional history. In the rural theme, he tries to realize criticism of the rural secular overview by considering rural region in China in the process of globalization.Li Er's novels are unique in the narrative structure. In the narration of time, the time in Li Er's novel does not have continuity, but show the characteristics of fragmentation. The narrator of the novel always stands at the edge of the event examining the event, and maintain a certain distance. In the novel's structure, Li Er's novel presents the characteristics of open-ending. Novel's beginning will enter straight into the scene or event and character directly enter into the event. There is no redundance. The end is also quite different from the others. This kind of ending is of definite possibility and will develop according to different association of different readers. This kind of open ending originates from the concept-life has no endings and reflects writer's unique thinking of life. In style, the Li Er's novels are not confined into a certain style, but make use of a. large numbers of references, insertion to achieve a bold attempt in the multi-genre writing, which also show the openness in his novel.Li Er's devotes particular cares to the narration of language and the use of rhetorical devices. During those rhetoric devices, irony and dialogue has their full presentation in Li Er's works, for the use of the tow rhetorical effect, the first two pages in the fourth chapter has been specifically discussed. In language, Li Er is very sensitive, obsessive. Subject of his novels always has different meaning, which is always related to the theme of the novel privately. Due to attempt of miscellaneous narrative writing, language in his works is Majestic, odd deceitful magnificent. Although this article can not describe the whole value of Li Er novel, but it contains the unique value of Li Er's novel.