西南联大作家群的“现代主义”小说创作取得了相当重要的成果。本文主要考察这些小说的产生原因、思想探索、叙事艺术以及修辞语言，探讨其丰富性和异质性。全面抗战爆发之后，侵略者给中国人民带来了深重的痛苦。在文艺宣传的大潮面前，沈从文、卞之琳等联大教师思考文学的“普遍性”和“永久性”。部分师生陷入了作家的个人话语与群体话语的矛盾之中。种种危机促使他们向现代主义凝眸，探求新文学的出路。在西南联大这样一所具有自由性的校园里，师生展开了关于现代主义的多样互动。从课堂交流到杂志编写，从作品点评到文学翻译，形成了热烈的创作氛围。在思想探索方面，钱钟书的《纪念》、冯至的《伍子胥》、吕德申的《一生》以及吴风的《周末日》等作品展示出本体论层面的孤独。《围城》、沈从文的《梦与现实》与白炼的《圈子以外的人物》则揭露了失去信仰的“现代人”的精神危机。为了将人从危机中解救出来，沈从文在《摘星录——绿的梦》和《看虹录》中通过接近美和庄严来寻求精神支撑。冯至从原初神话经验、存在主义哲学和现实斗争中寻求心灵慰藉。另外，卞之琳的《山山水水》尝试用“象征”和“民族传统”来消解作家的精神危机，但没能取得成功。整体来看，联大作家群的“现代主义”小说进行了较为深入的思想主题方面的探索，但部分作品也表现出作家思想的局限性和一定程度上的落后性，需要进行反思。
  在叙事艺术方面，卞之琳借鉴亨利·詹姆斯的视点技巧，通过不同人物的视角来叙述，其作品体现出与中国传统山水画技法的相似性。汪曾祺的《绿猫》和《复仇》等小说也采用了多种视角和聚焦。《看虹录》和王佐良的《平原的边缘》用复调来描述人物复杂的思想状态。《伍子胥》对叙事时间进行灵活的安排，让时间的流动与人的心理节奏相对应。“顿悟”和“意识流”的手法则分别被熟练地运用在汪曾祺的《邂逅》和黄丽生的《死去的梦》等作品中。在修辞和语言方面，《平原的边缘》、李广田的《欢喜团》和刘北汜的《山谷》等小说运用象征手法，对抽象概念或情绪心态进行具象化的阐释。王佐良的《背景》和汪曾祺的《序雨》则分别通过奇特的联想和打破常规的语言来制造晦涩，产生陌生化的效果。总体而言，在联大作家群的“现代主义”小说探索中，教师的创作更具思想深度，而学生的作品则展示出对艺术技巧的大胆尝试。

  "Modernist" novels written by the writer group from National Southwestern Associated University make important achievements. This paper mainly studies on the origins, explorations of thought, narrative arts and rhetorical skills, and investigates the richness and diversity of these novels. After the outbreak of the all-out war of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the invaders made Chinese people suffer from deep pains. In face of the prevailing atmosphere that regarding literature as a tool for publicity, teachers in National Southwestern Associated University like Shen Congwen and Bian Zhilin thought about the "universality" and "permanence" of literature. Some teachers and students were caught in the contradiction between writers' individual discourse and group discourse. Various crises prompted them to turn to modernism, and explored the development of new literature. In a campus with feature of freedom like National Southwestern Associated University, lots of interactions about modernism took place among teachers and students. From the class, magazine, criticism to translation, a fervent atmosphere of modernism was formed. In terms of explorations of thought, works such as Qian Zhongshu's Memory, Feng Zhi's Wu Zixu, Lv Deshen's Lifetime and Wu Feng's Weekend display individual's ontological loneliness. Fortress Besieged, Shen Congwen's Dream and Reality and Bai Lian's People Outside the Circle reveal the spiritual crisis of "modern people" who have lost their faith。To save people from the crisis, Shen Congwen seeks support by approaching beauty and dignity in Record of Picking Stars and Record of Appreciating Rainbows. Feng Zhi looks for spiritual comfort in original mythological experience, existential philosophy and practical struggle. In addition, Bian Zhilin's Mountains and Rivers tries to dispel writers' spiritual crisis with "symbolism" and "tradition" but failed. On the whole, these novels reveal relatively in-depth explorations of thought. However, some of the works also show the limitations of the writers' thinking and a certain degree of backwardness, which need reflection.
  As for the narrative arts, Bian zhilin learned James Henry's point of view. He used perspectives of different characters to narratate. In the same time, the novel reflects the similarity with the techniques of Chinese traditional landscape painting. Wang Zengqi's Green Cat and Revenge also use more than one perspective and focus. Record of Appreciating Rainbows and Wang Zuoliang's The Edge of Plain utilize polyphony to describe the complex states of mind of the characters. In Wu Zixu, the narrative time is flexibly arranged to make the flow of time correspond to people's psychological rhythm. The skills of "epiphany" and "stream of consciousness" are used skillfully in Wang Zengqi's Encounter and Huang Lisheng's Dead Dream respectively. With regard to rhetoric and language, The Edge of the Plain, Li Guangtian's Joyful Rice Ball, Liu Beisi's Valley use concrete images to explain abstract concepts and emotional activities. Wang Zuoliang's Background and Wang Zengqi's Preface to Rain create obscurity and defamiliarization through special associations and unconventional language respectively. To sum up, in the creation of the "modernist" novles of the writer group from National Southwestern Associated University, the teachers' creations are of higher depth in thought, and the students make bold attempts in artistic skills.