1- What are the main features of Modernist fiction?
The first of the main features of Modernist fiction is the attention to the subjectivity of characters. Modernist novel is interested into analyze inner reality of the characters (their thoughts, emotions and feelings) and not into write about the actions and the whole life of them. Moreover Modernist novel wants to give back the reader what he seeks, that is the sense of life, while traditional novel aimed only to entertain the reader.

2- What is reader's position in Modernist fiction? What are the differences with reader's position in the traditional novel?
In Modernist fiction the reader is free of making a personal idea about the characters because Modernism is not interested into give the reader moral lessons. On the contrary the traditional novel does not allows the reader to have a personal idea because eveything is filtered by the narrator.

3- What is the narrator concerned with in Modernist novel?
In Modernist fiction the narrator is not concerned with moral lessons, but he wants his novel gives back the reader the real life, with all the impressions which hit the reader. Moreover the Modernist novel wants to give back the reader the sense of life.

4- What narrative techniques are used in Modernist novel? How can the narrator give the reader what the character thinks?
In Modernist novel there is a third person omniscient narrator because only an omniscient narrator knows everything about what a character thinks. Moreover the narrator is not intrusive, so he does not speak with the reader but he is there (eclipsed narrator).
Another important element is the shift of point of view: in order to present many perspectives the narrator enters in the mind of many characters. The style he uses is inner monologue and stream of consciousness. Character's thought are reported with free indirect style.
Moreover, Modernist novel "shows" and the reader have to understand, while the traditional novel only tells something.

5- What style is used in Modernist fiction?
The style the narrator uses is interior monologue and stream of consciousness. Character's thought are reported with free indirect style, free indirect speech or free indirect thought.

6- What is the concept of time in Modernist novel and traditional one? How time is called in Modernist novel?
In traditional novel the narrator follows a chronological order of the events. Modernist novel is interested into subjective time, called "simultaneous time". Focusing the attention on character's inner reality, there is not a linear sequence of events and thoughts, but past, present and future are present in character's mind all together because their union shapes a character.

7- How traditional novel presents past events?
Traditional novel follows a chronological order of the events but in order to explain something happened previously it uses summaries and, if it is an important thing, the narrator uses the digression.

8- What makes time simultaneous?
The consciousness is the element which makes time simultaneous because only consciousness can remember the past and foreseeing the future in the present.