The Prosperity Of Fantasy Novels

Fantasy novel is prevalent in the21st Century Network literary.It inherits thetraditional eastern and western romantic fantasy literature.It is a new kind of novelwhich derives from myth、Demon、martial arts、animation and game.From2001to2002，our fantasy novel imitates western fantasy novel mainly. From2003to2004,the novel begans to localize. Now the novel integrates the legend、martial arts、magic、space shuttle、a variety of themes into the novel by a variety of writingtechniques. Fantasy novel has been prevalent more than ten years. Althoughtraditional critics belittle it as " mystify ", it has not still declined. With time passing,half of the network literature is fantasy novel. Some reasons why it is so popular areanalyzed.The first, the novel is closely related to the current aesthetic trends in China’s cultural diversity.The second,it matchs with psychology of80generations,includingrebel、impulse、confidence、the desire for self-expression and other psychologicalneeds.Last,it highlights their aesthetic characteristics and values.So it has a uniquecultural values. This paper systematically analyzes the fantasy novel ’s origin and thereasons why it is popular, cardings its history and development, reveals its deepsocial and psychological reason,reflect aesthetic tastes and aspirations ofcontemporary youth.