What Is Meant by the Epic Nature of Contemporary Novels?--Notes on A Lifelong Journey  

作　　者：LIU Daxian 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Ethnic Literature,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,Beijing 100005,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》2022年第1期90-101,共12页中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：A Lifelong Journey(Renshijian)is a novel about the fate of common people,especially of the workers,in China's practice of chang-ing reality from the 1950S to the present.It inherits the legacy of the realistic novels in the 19th century and endows them with contemporary features.In the humanitarian-based"stories of good men,"Liang Xiaosheng highlights the general thinking of the common people's happy life as a goal,and gives expressive to the epic nature of contemporary novels.

关 键 词：Liang Xiaosheng A Lifelong Journey modern epic folk ethics .humanitarianism analysis on stratum 

分 类 号：I207.4[文学—中国文学]