Innovation and Breakthrough
Wang Meng’s The Eastern Stream of Consciousness Novel
Abstract: Stream of consciousness novel at the beginning of 20th century started from the west, it is a new method of novel writing, it is more direct on the representation of the character’s mentality and it could tell the author’s purpose of his novel. The greatest direct-viewing difference between the stream of consciousness and the traditional novel is that Stream of consciousness novel does not unfold the character's words and deeds, but presents character's consciousness world and the flow directly. At the junctions of 70’s and 80's, at that time the Chinese social reform opening and ideological liberation movement penetrate into the society , it enabled the literature to obtain a turning point of breakthroughand the innovation . Wang Meng has held this opportunity, borrowing from the creation of stream of consciousness novel in western, but he does not abandon the traditional Chinese novel, innovates one kind of concurrently East and West culture "the Eastern stream of consciousness". This kind of "the Eastern stream of consciousness" has Chinese traditional culture and the Socialist Realism, it has the plot structure and the traditional expression way of the traditional novel , and it also has the characteristic in the western stream of consciousness’s consciousness mobile as well as the stream of consciousness the innermost feelings monologue, performance skill free association, and so on. Wang Meng’s Eastern stream of consciousness novel is the breakthrough to the traditional novel, is even one kind of innovation, it urges the development of Chinese literary arena.
Key words: Innovation；Exploration；The Stream of Consciousness；
The Eastern Stream of Consciousness
