“时间是小说的一个主要组成部分。我认为时间同故事和人物具有同等重要的价值。凡是我所能想到的真正懂得、或者本能地懂得小说技巧的作家,很少有人不对时间因素加以戏剧性地利用的。”伊丽莎白·鲍温的这句话深刻的点明了时间之于小说本身的重要作用。[1]余华根据自己的创作经验和理念,在写作中不自觉地对时间这一概念加以利用和改造,形成了一套自己的时间叙事模式。 “Time is a major part of the novel, and I think time is of equal value to stories and characters, and few writers who truly understand, or instinctively understand, the techniques of fiction that I can think of do little dramatic change in time . ”" Elizabeth Bowen’s sentence profoundly points out the importance of time in the novel itself. According to his own creative experiences and concepts, Yu Hua unconsciously used and reformed the concept of time in his writing, forming his own time narrative model.