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IJLLL 2024 Vol.10(5): 426-431
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2024.10.5.555

Analysis of the Narrative Labyrinth in Ge Fei’s The Brown Flock

Puqiu Wei
Department of Language, Literature and Culture, King’s College London, London, UK
Email: weipuqiuchina@yeah.net (P.Q.W.)

Manuscript received July 15, 2024; revised August 17, 2024; accepted September 5, 2024; published October 31, 2024.

Abstract—The avant-garde writer Ge Fei is renowned in the Chinese literary world for the complexity of his narratives. This essay primarily conducts a close reading of his representative work, The Brown Flock, through a structuralist approach. Influenced by Borges, Ge Fei’s perception of time exhibits a state of cyclical dissolution within contradictory memories, with the focus of the novel being on the act of narrative itself rather than the narrative content. Therefore, this article concentrates on narrative analysis, revealing the phenomenon of “narrative stratification” in the text and further deducing a nested “meta-fiction” structure. Finally, it explores narrative consciousness and metaphysical reflections on time.

Keywords—Ge Fei, The Brown Flock, narrative analysis, time, metaphor

Cite: Puqiu Wei, "Analysis of the Narrative Labyrinth in Ge Fei’s The Brown Flock," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 10, no. 5, pp.  426-431, 2024.

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