现代主义小说是相对于维多利亚小说或者爱德华式小说而言的。谈到现代主义小说,不仅要谈这种文体在形式上的多样性,也要谈它在理解上的多种可能性。从1890年左右到1930年左右,小说这种形式比维多利亚时期更受欢迎,而且出现了多元现象。1899年,亨利·詹姆斯提出小说是一种普遍有效的文学形式[1];福特·麦当克斯·福特(1930)也认为现代小说是一种不可缺少的东西,是“唯一你要确定你的同辈人是怎样生活的一种途径”[2]。然而在作家圈 Modernist novels are relative to Victorian novels or Edwardian novels. When it comes to modernist novels, we should not only talk about the formal diversity of such genres, but also about the many possibilities in understanding. From around 1890 to around 1930, the form of the novel was more popular than the Victorian era, and the phenomenon of pluralism appeared. In 1899, Henry James proposed that novels are a universally effective literary form [1]; Ford · Madan Ford (1930) also considered modern fiction as an indispensable thing, is “the only thing you want to determine How your peers are living. ”[2] However, in the circle of writers