A Study On The Time Narrative Of Sun Huifen’s Local Novels

Over the years, Sun Huifen has been insisting in local novel writing. The countryside world presented by countryside time that she applied has formed striking contrast with the urban world guided by modern time, which has reflected the binary opposite relation between countryside and urban, tradition and modernity, showing her retrospect to the tradition and reflection to the modernity.Through digging and applying the static, perpetual and cyclic characteristics of countryside time, Sun Huifen has portrayed the quiet, leisure and natural style of traditional countryside, which has achieved the artistic effect of closing to the countryside and expanding the narration capacity, etc. The rural world under her writing has bred infinite poetry from countryside time and expressed the author’s creation intention of showing traditional culture, leading people to retrospect the tradition and realizing the re-identification to traditional culture and national spirit. Meanwhile, through the exquisite depiction of countrymen’s encounter and psychological change while straying between the urban and the rural, Sun Huifen has compared the traditional village with modern city, which has shown the anxiety and sense of pressure of countrymen caused by the fast, linear and futuristic modern time, highlighted the comfort of village to heart as well as the infinite nostalgia to village. In addition, Sun Huifen’s local novels have truly reflected the trend that village has been taken apart from tradition and headed for modernity under the influence of urban, revealed the reality of declining traditional villages and elapsing traditional poetry and shown her profound reflection to modernity and efforts of anti-modernity. Therefore, the perfect application and mastering to countryside time has enabled her local novels full of the spirit of the times and cultural connotation, which also has reflected her responsibility and mission as an intellectual.