The Distorted Time-Narrative Temporality Study On McEwan's Modern Writing In The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden,a novel written by Ian McEwan in the 20th century,advances the reformation of traditional narrative technique by realizing the innovation of modern narrative temporality.From the perspective of Genette's narrative temporality theory,this study applies the modem techniques of narrative time in The Cement Garden.The narrative style of McEwan is explored from three angles:disordered time,slowed scene and independent mental time.Based on the nature of time,the narrative in The Cement Garden adequately develops the subjective initiative of time in disordered time,actualizes the temporalization of space in the narrative with slowed scene technique and builds distinctive logical and rhythmic system independent of reality in the dimension of internal time.The results of the study find that McEwan attaches modern narrative techniques to the traditional narrative,and at the same time utilizes the design of unreliable narrator to disassemble the time of story and to rebel it from within.McEwan is inclined to control and regulate the variable factors of narrative time in order to realize the fragmentization of the external time and the temporalisation of the space so that he implements the deconstruction of physical time-space and reconstruction of psychological time.He permeates the narrative with the philosophy of time,and beneath the surface that the adolescent narrator loses his time,the time is resurrected by narrating.