与传统小说相比,意识流小说有着极大的创新性。它打破了传统小说基本上按故事情节发生的先后次序或是按情节之间的逻辑联系而形成的单一的、直线发展的结构,故事的叙述不是按时间顺序依次直线前进,而是随着人的意识活动,通过自由联想来组织故事。故事的安排和情节的衔接,一般不受时间、空间或逻辑、因果关系的制约,往往表现为时间、空间的跳跃、多变。时间上往往是过去、现在、将来的相互交叉或重叠。意识流小说常常是以一件当时正在进行的事件为中心,通过触发物的引发,使得人的意识活动不断地向四面八方发射又收回,经过不断循环往复,形成一种枝蔓式的立体结构。在创作技巧上,意识流小说大量采用意识活动、时空错乱、自由联想、内心独白等手法来组织和表现故事情节,尽管意识流小说看上去杂乱无章,但却达到了“形散而神不散”的效果。 Compared with the traditional novels, the stream of consciousness novels have a great innovation. It breaks the single, straight-line structure of the traditional novels, which is basically formed according to the order of the story or the logical connection between the plots. The narration of the story does not follow a straight line in time sequence. Instead, Awareness activities to organize stories through free association. The arrangement of the story and the connection of the plot are generally not subject to the restriction of time, space or logic and causality, and often appear as time and space jumping and changing. Time is often past, present, future or cross each other. Stream-of-consciousness novels often focus on an ongoing event at that time. Through the triggering of objects, people’s awareness activities are continuously launched and recovered from all directions. Through continuous circulation, a three-dimensional structure of branches and branches is formed. In his creative skills, novels on stream of consciousness use a lot of consciousness activities, time-disorder, free association, inner soliloquy to organize and express the story. Although the stream of consciousness novels look disorganized, they reach the goal of “ ”Effect.