The Later Influence Of Revolutionary Narrative Experience In Left-Wing Fiction (1942-1966)

In the history of modern Chinese literature, the narration of revolution in left-wing novels has formed its own unique narrative experience in the aspects such as subject reconstruction, narrative rhetoric, and aesthetic conventions, which the Red Classics novels objectively and historically inherited. The kinship which was hard to cut proved that the narration of revolution in left-wing novels had profound impacts and "model" significances; meanwhile it also marks the lost of classic in the Red Classics.These are embodied in the following three aspects. First, the close alliance of the Chinese proletarian revolution and farmers caused writers to discard the "national "critical superiority of morality and moralized convention. They made a very bold artistic treatment of the spirit character of the broad masses of workers and peasants, resulting in the alienation of peasants’cultural personality and the conflicts of class identity. The change of writers’identity from "poets" to "warriors" determined the role dislocation of their social responsibilities from "art" to "politics", so in their novels they precisely described that many intellectuals were willing to be peasants or workers as self-salvation. Secondly, they used dualistic characteristics as narrative rhetoric, and made the concept of class and political rationality permeated the novels. The intergenerational conflict between father and son in rural areas was filled with class connotation. The young generation had the class identity of "the son of the revolution", who fell apart with his father.And finally son’s ideas were favored by his father.The narrative model of "revolution plus love" also had new connotation:revolutionary’s psychological mechanism of self-restraint and the allocation model of love resource. Thirdly, the idea of justice presupposed by revolution made violence and revenge morally legal; the additional bright vision portrayed by revolution led to the aesthetic rationality of saga.The grand narration highlights the "fighting spirit" quality of practical utilitarianism in proletarian revolutionary literature. Why did the three impacts of the above exist? The reason shows below:In the strong wave of revolution, the intellectual elite writers lost themselves in the mental pain and anxiety for the revolution and the broad masses; the later writers who used to be workers and peasants lacked literary background and literary theory, which became the basic reason why their novels borrowed and imitated the revolutionary narration of the left-wing novels.Therefore, the re-examination of the concept of the left-wing literature, full restoration of the creative resources of the Red Classics literature, scientifical and rational revealment of the profound impacts the revolutionary narrative experience in left-wing novels made on the Red Classics, pragmatic and objective evaluation of the aesthetic and cultural phenomena of its political utility, and exact reproduction of cognitive complexity of the revolutionary idea the Chinese writers had, all of which not only consist of the origin of the study of text, but also become a new academic growing point, actively expanding the thinking space of the study of the left-wing literature and "Red Classics" literature.