Analyzing the Characteristics of Life School's Realistic Novels and Self-Narrative Lyric Novels

Characteristics of the realistic novels of the Life School and the self-referential lyrical novels:

1. Focusing on self-expression, the subjective color is strong.

2. Instead of focusing on the external depiction of events, they focus on the catharsis and expression of the writer's emotions, feelings, state of mind and mentality, thus breaking through the framework of traditional novels structured on the basis of the events and plots, and realizing the evolution from the plot novels to the emotional novels. It shows the tendency of prose culture and poetization.

3. The method of creation is based on romanticism, and at the same time draws on certain modernist techniques.

4. The romantic lyric literature of the May Fourth demonstrated the unique lyricism of 20th century China, renewed the traditional novel techniques, enriched the novel's style, and had a high aesthetic significance.