The Modern Chinese Novel Narrative Of Childhood

Childhood narrative is a new narrative technique in Chinese modern literature, it is generated from the Chinese and western culture collision. On the creative methods, under the guidance of the western literature,Chinese modern fiction have broken the traditional limit of the omniscient view, and have provided the theoretical foundation for the emergence of childhood narrative. Meanwhile, fairy tales, children's literature and large of the translation of foreign works also have played a promoting role to Chinese contemporary writer. On the cultural, the modern children view was established under the influence of western children view during the May 4th movement, and caused many attentions to the children.Form then on children have begun to enter the advanced intellectuals' view. On creative psychological aspect, the generate of childhood narrative was closely related to the Chinese modern writers' childhood complex. The valuable experience of childhood have played an activated role to the modern novel.The childhood is the center of the childhood narrative.Through the emission of childhood experience, it reflects the contemporary social life and rich life.Its basis points are the character, the event and the scene of the childhood. The modern writer regard childishness and children's world as a representative of the ideal human nature to depict and praise. Chinese modem writer which lived in the unsettled times regard the memory of childhood hometown as a kind of spiritual comfort, making childhood and hometown become the preferred theme of modem writer. Either the description to childishness, or the memory to the childhood home, or the critic to the complicated adults world, those penetrate into childhood and are the basic theme which not ignore in the childhood narrative.The artistic technique of the childhood narrative are the dual narrative perspective, the text structure of storytelling, simple plot, the flat figure and language of children.The remarkable artistic characteristics of childhood narrative greatly promoted the development of modern Chinese novel narrative art. The modern Chinese novel narrative brings a refreshing aesthetic experience to readers,and become the distinct literary landscape in Chinese modern literature.