The Narrative Ethics of Individual Memory——Taking Chi Li's You Are a River and To and Fro as examples
The new realistic novels,represented by Chi Li's Troubles of Life and Liu Zhenyun's Ground Covered with Chicken Feathers,focus on the description of individual emotional experience and daily life,and try to restore the objective reality of life through individual memory.Chi Li's novels focus on the trivial and ordinary lives of individuals,and reflect the author's reflection on the relationship between individuals and the times in the narrative of character naming and individual emotions.At the same time,the depiction of the way of"indomitable living"in life admires the vigorous vitality of the lower society.The understanding and reflection of life experience in Chi Li's novels originate from the writer's personal experience,and the individual living state and the relationship between individuals and groups presented by it can cause reflection in the present.