What are the features of Modernist fiction/ what distinguishes Modernist fiction from the traditional one?

-What changes in modernist fiction? In modernist fiction the writers privilege subjectivity and they put the chatacters at the center of their investigation, instead in traditional novel the main concerns were the events, the situations...

-What is the different position of the reader? In modernist fiction the reader is free of making is own personal idea, on the contrary in traditional fiction he isn't free beacuse everything he reads is filtred by the narrator

-What narrative techinques are used in modernist fiction? The main techniques are the internal monologue and a free indirected style, the shifting of point of view and the third person omniscient narrator.

-what is the free indirected style? The free indirected style is a reported speech in which the narrator is eclipsed

-what does eclipse of the narrator mean? It means the narrator does not appear but he is there, he is hidden.

-what kind of narrator is adopted in modernist novels? In modernist novels a third person omniscient narrator is often used

-what is the conception of time in modernist fiction? In modernist fiction time isn't cronological but it is simultaneous beacuse it follows the mechanisms of consciousness, indeed present, past and future are mixed together.