On The Blank Space Of The Novel

‘Leaving blank in fiction' is a common and important skill in writing,as well as an aesthetic concept waiting for deep analysis.The study is based on reading the typical fiction with ‘leaving blank'.The aesthetic mechanism of ‘leaving blank',the objective and subjective reasons of using this skill and the aesthetic effect of different blank in fiction are tried to be presented in a system.The first type of blank is suppressed narrative.In terms of blank of objective information,Chekhov tried to use selective detail description.The details should be typical and close to reality.Carver omitted the key plot on purpose to cut the causal chain.The text became open and nervous.Allan Poe set suspense in his detective novels through reversing the time line.In terms of blank of subjective mind,Grille made the narrator disappear and showed the materialized world in the fiction ‘Jealousy'.Exterior focalization is used in Hemingway's fiction ‘Hills like White Elephants' to limit the subjective intervention from the author.Kundera created a music structure by means of controlling the narration speed to imply the change of emotion.In terms of blank of words and sentences,Chekhov used concise and definite descriptions to show the quickness of mind.Wang Zengqi preferred to use folk language and poetic words in his fiction.The space in the fiction was extended.The second type of blank is vague narrative.In terms of uncertain narrative,Kafka created the symbol ‘castle'.The symbol has uncertain meanings and hard to be understood.Eileen Chang was sensitive to visual images and she created many desolate images in the fiction ‘Love in a Fallen City'.In terms of inadequate narrative,implying is used in the fiction ‘A Dream of Red Mansions' to imply the lewd relationship and the obscure love of young people.Hardship in life is lightened in the fiction ‘Border Town' in a gentle and poetic way.The immigrant writer Kazuo Ishiguro narrates with unreliable memories in the fiction ‘A Pale View of Hills' to show the traumatic memories and the redemption.Henry James used internal focalization and created terrorist atmosphere to imply the existence of ghosts.The narrative is quite frightening.The last type of blank is gap in narrative.In terms of multi-voice narrative,Dostoyevsky's fiction has a polyphonic structure.Different voices talk with each other in equal positions.Double-deck narrative and multiple views are used in Conrad's fiction ‘Heart of Darkness'.The blank in narrative makes the text closer to the truth of life and history.In terms of fragmented narrative,Xiao Hong set different space synchronically in the fiction ‘Tales of Hulan River',recalling her childhood;Grille created split and broken scenes in the fiction ‘In the Maze'.The writer showed the split and broken world in an appropriate form.In terms of blank of mind,Faulkner described the stream of consciousness in an idiot's heart.The images are incoherent.The time and space is in chaos.‘A Dream in Red Mansions' is a fiction about dreams.Jia Baoyu's dream is illogical,similar to the real dream.