Xu Zechen’s Novel Narration Of The Canal

Xu Zechen is an important young writer in the contemporary literary world.In terms of content,his novels can be divided into "Beijing drifting series","campus series","mystery series" and "hometown series".Among them,the canal narration,which belongs to the "hometown series",forms the foundation of his novel creation,which also shows the necessity of studying the canal narration.Xu Zechen presents the Grand Canal in multiple dimensions in his novels.As a geographical space,the Grand Canal exists in reality and "co-exists" with the author’s hometown.As a psychological space,the Grand Canal is the spiritual place and destination of the author and the characters,as well as the sacred field of their spiritual salvation.As a cultural symbol,the Grand Canal is showing its unique "canal culture" and its important function as a link of communication between Chinese and Western civilizations.The canal narration in Xu Zechen’s novels uses unique narrative skills.From the perspective of narrative,Xu Zechen flexibly uses omniscient perspective and limited perspective,alternating among various narrative perspectives,so as to show the Grand Canal in an all-round way.In terms of narrative time,the author uses a variety of narrative time sequence and space-time interlacing techniques to form different narrative rhythm,which breaks the whole time sequence,causes the strangeness in art,and enhances the attraction of canal narration.In terms of narrative structure,the author makes bold innovations to the traditional narrative mode,arranging plots in the interweaving of multiple clues to show the overall picture of the story.In addition,the author also creatively uses the symmetrical structure to achieve a high degree of agreement and perfect unity between content and form.The narration of the canal in Xu Zechen’s novels has unique aesthetic and artistic quality.From the perspective of aesthetic form,the narration of the canal in Xu Zechen’s novels is manifested as the natural beauty,the enrich and three-dimensional human beauty and the tragic beauty that strikes the heart directly.In terms of artistic effect,because the Grand Canal connects the north and south of China with a grand,broad,profound and profound sense of history,Xu Zechen’s canal narration has brought grand aesthetic atmosphere and complicated artistic characteristics.The narration of the canal in Xu Zechen’s novels is of great significance and value.It is the inheritance and development of the canal narration in the past,and also provides a useful reference for contemporary literature how to bring the geographical landscape into literary creation.Xu Zechen’s narration of the Grand Canal also has important practical significance.It pays attention to and reflects on the important cultural significance and value of the Grand Canal in the dimension of ancient and modern times,which brings people deep thinking.