The Narrative Art In Geling Yan’s Novels

Geling Yan said:“I always hope the good story I told is not onlyphenomenon. All phenomena can be peep out the essence by the readers.The behavior of all the characters is the secret way to understand the people,and every secret way all leads to the unfathomable personality secret.” Tofound “the peep hole" and "the secret way ", Geling Yan has been exploringthe human nature and ego through exploring of the writing way. In the form ofexploring, the narrative consciousness in the novels is subliming constantly.There are five parts in this paper:The preface emphasizes Geling Yan’s creation and the educationalcircles study about her, and puts forward the problems intended to beexplored. then the text is brought out accordingly.The first chapter analyzing the narrative consciousness through thechoice of the narrative perspective in Geling Yan’s Novels. In exploring ofthe narrative perspective, Geling Yan‘s novels before going abroad wasmoving between “external-focus visual angle” and “Internal-focus visual angle”.Although the exploring was in chaos state，The “Internal-focus visualangle” was always directed at the people heart. After going abroad,her novels appeared “multidimensional tend” in the “Internal-focus visualangle”. Geling Yan observed mainland in the opposite perspective as overseasChinese, which made her could prove the study about human from the sideand the opposite of the point of view.Its exploring performance characteristicsfor: The spatiality of the perspective is expanded. The selectivity on subject ofperspective is strengthened, The choose on the perspective presents relativityand harmony between the Inside and the outside.The second chapter analyzing the narrative consciousness throughexploring the narrative discourse in Geling Yan ‘s Novels. In exploring of thenarrative discourse, there are four stages in Geling Yan’ novels. The first stageis exploring self. In the novels before going abroad, the character was exploring the mystery of human nature in one’s heart again and again.Although in The Female’s Lawn ","Speaks" began to "Dialogue", it still is in thetangle of exploring self. The second stage is eager to exchange.The specificperformance is in the early works abroad. and this time the writer faced hugechallenges, which including looking for the narrative angle with more globalconsciousness, and seeking the way of writing and language with thecirculation all over the world. Facing the challenges, Geling Yan put the keyon the integration between "you said—I listen to" means of discourse in thetraditional Chinese rap literature and western humanism psychology. thismade the way of discourse to present a feature of “heart-to-heart talk”. Suchas: in Fu Sang, pursuing a dialogue with “you” in the history， exploringhuman nature and love fiercely. In The World, pursuing a dialogue with “you”as a psychologist，analysising human nature and ego with "talkout" discourse.The third stage is self regression stage. In "A Woman’s Epic" and "The Youngaunt Duo He and so on, the writer is no longer to pursue a dialogue with"you" aggressively. In telling the story, returning to the herself. The fourthstage is apperception on human self stage. The cold humor in The BanquetBug and the turns within the aftertastes have marked Geling Yan ‘s novelshad been starting up from the fine to the mastery.The third chapter analyzing the narrative consciousness through theexploring of the narrative structure in Geling Yan’s Novels. In exploring ofnarrative structure, Geling Yan ‘s novels before going abroad The Green Bloodand The Whisper from a Women Soldier was telling story from their heart byflashbacks and interleave. The narrative structure is showing a exploring inquiet. The novels abroad FuSang and A Cafe with No Way out repeatedcrisscross narrative between past and present. She was exploring truths ofmysterious layer one by one through the reflection on the course of theirmental progress, Fulling of rational speculative colour. Later, Geling Yan ‘snarrative structure start to change from the rational exploration by timeinterleaving mainly to perceptual narrative by story development of traditional Chinese mainly. She is exploring the inner world through theexternal world, exploring the secrets of the world through the innerworld.Timing crisscross as a narrative way still exist, but it has become one ofthe inner self for complement. The narrative became more and moreaccurate and exquisite, her exploring become more and more witty and wise.The epilogue part has generally summarized the development route ofChinese novel narrative art in the20th century and approved the contributionGeling Yan has made for Chinese novel narrative art.In brief, Geling Yan has been exploring human nature and ego thoughexploring the way of writing. She has been innovateing and expanding themode of novel narrative to many dimensions, which made constructive valuefor the development of Chinese novel narrative art.