Modern Chinese Diary Novel

Diary-style fiction is an important literary form. The text of diary-style fiction, as the combination of both first-person narration and virtual time frame, is a literary form to construct certain special mental space.Literary characteristics of diary-style fiction consist in the form of its reliability, time frame and closing motif.Reliability: Reliability is the first literary characteristic of diary-style fiction. On the way to reliability there are two means. First, keeping a directly description and inner tension can be constituted with the using of distance of time and mental state between the past and the present. Second, making use of diary-style fiction's suspense on narration. The diary manuscript and diary author are natural factors that constitute diary-style fiction's suspense. The realization of reliability of diary-style fiction has to depend on its language's reliability. Because diary-style fiction deals with various figures, there is a problem for how to use various subjective mood and note. On the whole, modem Chinese diary-style fiction makes use of more than intellectual mood and other subjective mood comes out after the third decade.Time frame: Modern Chinese diary-style fiction has varieties on the application of its time frame. Confused time marks are common occurrences. The nature of time frame and time concept in modern Chinese diary-style fiction roots in modern intellectual's living experience in the special history space. Standing out of person's living experience coming from the modernization of time concept, it is also an important reason for emergence of modern Chinese diary-style fiction. The key function of modem Chinese diary-style fiction's literary form is to construct a special mental space and the time frame of modern Chinese diary-style fiction is an appropriate measure.Closing motif: Closing motif of modern diary-style fiction, as a literary expression of a philosophy theme that man lives outside the world, virtually reflects human being's feeling of alienation in his living experiences. In modern diary-style fictions, closing circumstance and solitude atmosphere are intimately contacted with closing motif. Being deepening of closing motif, Self-reflection motif has the most enchanting and philosophical narration form. With both open and closing motif, diary-style fiction in May 4th Age is the result of a awakened generation eagerly express their deep heart feelings, in which mental state and consciousness of deeply probing into self-image is deficient. Since the 1930's, in order to expand its scope of reflecting society, the motif of diary-style fiction has undergone a transformation from inner to outer, its closing motif and self-reflection come to be put aside.The development of modern Chinese diary-style fiction can be divided into three stages.The early years of Republic of China : At that time, the style of diary-style fiction still has features of zhanghui fiction. The reason is that when writer makes use of the form of diary-style fiction, affected by aesthetic inertia of zhanghui fiction characterized byemphasizing the role of plot, he is involuntarily inclined to recount a well-organized story. Author of diary-style fiction has not realized the function of its Time frame, narrative rhythm and fiction's structure. But, the advantage of probing into people's mental outlook, which is diary-style fiction's strong point, has been manifest .At that time, diary-style fiction begins to manifest success of catering to reader's mental needs.May 4th Age: Completely ring out the features of emphasizing the role of plot in diary-style fiction in the early years of Republic of China, diary-style fiction in May 4th Age begins to construct a fiction structure with mood at the core. On the whole, what diary-style fiction in May 4th Age has take advantage of are the first-person narration's convenience of pouring out people's feelings, expression's privacy and strong mental atmosphere. In essence, diary-style fiction is a variety of first-person narration...