Firstly, the definition of narrative skill is given: narrative skill is that the author deliberately hides or misleads some facts from the readers by using the structure or writing skills of the article, and finally reveals the truth, which makes the readers feel indescribable consternation. (from Baidu Encyclopedia)
First of all, narrative paradox is mainly divided into the following contents:
1. Time Paradox: The concept of time in several narratives is deliberately blurred. On the surface, it seems to be simultaneous or continuous, but in fact there is a long time interval. or vice versa, Dallas to the auditorium
Masterpieces: Lost Man and Inverted Corner.
2. Paradox of personal narrative: It is common to use first-person narrative in articles, but it is not one-person narrative but multi-person narrative.
Masterpiece: The Runaway Man
3. Character narration: Deliberately misleading several different characters into the same person in the narration, or conversely writing the same person into several people.
Masterpiece: Lost person, I shouldn't turn myself in tomorrow morning.
4. Gender paradox: intentionally blurring the gender of characters, or misleading the gender of characters in other ways.
Masterpieces: the barren woman and the day of separation.
5. Place paradox: The same place is described as if there are multiple places, or two places that are very close seem to be far away. or vice versa, Dallas to the auditorium
Masterpiece: "You shouldn't surrender tomorrow morning"
6. Age paradox: deliberately concealing the true age of the characters, so that readers can misjudge the age of the characters.
Masterpiece: the trick of peach, the wisdom of ghosts and beasts.
7. Number paradox: The reader thinks it is X, but it is actually Y, deliberately hiding the real number (usually the number of people).
Masterpieces: The Runaway and The Death of Little Red Riding Hood Glass Castle.
8. Others: narrative paradoxes that are seldom used or not universal and cannot be classified. For example, The House Where Foreigners Live makes use of the rural narrative paradox, and Rolling Stone makes use of the species narrative paradox and so on.
Secondly, according to the creative way of narrative paradox, it is mainly divided into "fuzzy" and "misleading".
"Vagueness" is to hide some normal but slightly special elements, that is, to use the blind spots of readers' psychology, such as a woman who calls herself "Laozi", an old man in love, and two people who have similar experiences at different times.
"Misleading" means hiding some very special elements, which generally do not appear and are hard to think of. The challenge is whether the reader's imagination is bold enough. For example, people with six fingers, men who have undergone sex-change surgery, undeclared homosexuals and so on.
Some "misleading" is that the author deliberately uses text traps to arouse readers' thinking. For example, he deliberately uses the same person to talk about several people. For example, in Dog with Three Ears, he deliberately uses words to guide readers to exaggerate the characteristics of the protagonist, and so on.
The same type of narrative paradox may bring different impressions according to different creative methods. For example, it is also a gender narrative paradox, and "The barren woman" and "The Day of Disappointment" are vague and misleading respectively; The age is also a paradox, and the tricks of peach, the knowledge of ghost and the wisdom of beast are also vague and misleading respectively, resulting in completely different impressions.
Thirdly, according to the relationship between narrative paradox and puzzle, it can be divided into three types: relevance, embellishment and irrelevance.
For example, in The Trick of Peach and Rolling Stone, the narrative paradox is directly related to the puzzle. If we know the narrative paradox, the puzzle of the whole story will suddenly become clear, which is "relevance"; There is also a complete puzzle in Days of Lovelorn without narration, but the existence of narration makes the puzzle icing on the cake, which is "embellishment"; Another example is the three-eared dog and the morning glory spring. The existence of narrative paradox has nothing to do with puzzles, or even no puzzles at all. Narrative paradox is just a form of literary expression, which is "irrelevant".