Abstract:

Jacques Rancière has a long-standing interest in fictional issues. In recent years, he has published several monographs, in which he ponders the nature of modern fiction and presented unique insights. Rancière's concept of modern fiction is based on the critique of the traditional fictional rationality pioneered by Aristotle and the inheritance of scholars and writers such as Schiller, Keats, Flaubert, Woolf, Auerbach. It points out that the core of modern fiction is no longer the imitation of an organic whole action, but rather the manifestation of juxtaposed sensible micro-events. Changes in content lead to changes in the form of modern fiction. Description, which was marginalized in traditional fiction, has gained equal status to or even more important status than narrative, fundamentally changing the texture of modern fiction. A study of Rancière's concept of modern fiction helps further understand his aesthetics and politics of literature, and also provides a novel perspective for rethinking modern fictional writing.

Key words: Rancière, fictional rationality, action, description, distribution of the sensible