The Narrative Characteristics of Western Modernist Novels

Modernist writers, in order to explore the inner reality of the characters, focusing on the expression of complex and varied inner activities that are difficult to describe directly, often with the help of imagery, symbols, metaphors and other techniques, to reduce the idea to perception, so that the abstract idea of externalization. Modernist writers combine reality and non-reality through irrational and extreme exaggeration, putting seriousness into absurdity, and their absurd images have a special power of generalization. Modernist writers are keen on digging into human subconsciousness, adopting a lot of "inner monologue" and "free association" to express the "natural" flow state of characters' consciousness, and strive to explore the complexity of characters' psychology, expanding the psychological complexity of characters. The complexity of the psyche, expanding the scope of psychological description.