On Imagistic Narration in the Novels by Lu Xun

When watching films has become an indispensable part of Lu Xun’s daily life, the norms of creating films inevitably exert effect on his composition of novels, during which he applies, consciously or unconsciously, the expressive techniques in film-making to make his novels take on imagistic narrative features, such as visualized language, montage of images, and so on. Lu Xun firmly insists on the principle that imagistic narrative techniques should be selectively applied on the basis of fully displaying the linguistic charm of language, so the footage-like description in his works still features poeticness, completeness and richness in terms of literary expression, and as a result, the inner literary quality never gives way to the siege of imagery. Lu Xun’s experimental practice of imagistic narration has set a valuable example to the followers.