The Time Narrative Features Of Shen Congwen's Novels

Shen Congwen`s complex sense of time,which was formed in the unique Xiangxi living experience and special urban living experience,subconsciously influenced the novel narrative of time.In Shen Congwen`s novels,time is always in a vague sense,Shen Congwen preferred to use daily time,the cycle of the four seasons to elaborate narrative,and the Chinese traditional folk festivals like Dragon Boat Festival,Mid-Autumn festival,the lunar New Year to mark the time.The uncertainty of the time highlights the contradiction between the individual life and the eternal cycle time.This narrative feature is expressed in the structure of the trouble between the individual life and the cycle fate,the irony of time between life and death,and the contrast of time between the past and the present.Shen Congwen`s novel narrative of time has the characteristic of jumping,situational and symbolization.Shen Congwen described the Xiangxi's natural simple life and the urban oppression nihility experience quietly,weakened the plot conflicts.Behind the seemingly natural slow narrative,hiding the primitiveness expansion of human beings' survival and the smallness for themselves in the development.In the architecture of mythology time,in the contrast between the eternity of time and reality,the past time is endowed with the symbol implication of "paradise",while present and future are endowed with the symbol meaning of "paradise lost".