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Walk Into The Inner World Of 'Demon Path'--On The Unfathomable Spirit Of Zhecun Shi's Trilogy

Posted on:2005-01-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360125450621Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The novels of Zhecun Shi develop a school of his own in the literary world of China in 1930s,the style of writing. unconventional or unorthodox made more space for elaborate. His course of writing growing a clear clue. He had published novels collection 'the Festival of the Dead Spirits' in his early years. It leaves trace of literary novels that draw heavily on local subjects. It is short of originality. Though the three novels of them as 'From Chestnut To Taro','MinHang Autumn Log',' Buddhist HongZhi Became A Monk' have tried to breaking the old subject. They adds some saga coloring.' The Head Of A General' which be published in 1932,the second of trilogy of Zhecun Shi's psychoanalysis can be looked upon as writing. He describes the subconscious of the ancients, casting off the tie of realism, widening the subject of new literature. He is followed with interest at that time. So he is belonged to 'the new feelings'. But novels like 'Demon Path',' Night Travel',' A Hideous' by Zhecun Shi were suffered of wrong understanding. People did not pay any attention to them. They were looked upon as the heterodoxy of new literature. They can be looked upon as the third trilogy of Zhecun Shi's writing. They are the turning point of his writing. In these novels, he started exploreing,from reality to hallucination, from the outside world to intelligent space. He goes beyond the limit, the infinite which the social and literature environment can admit at that time. So all kinds of his attempts discontinue.The third trilogy of Zhecun Shi's writing's bottom color is black and white. By this adds images of the east and west culture to the usual objects, forming a sharp contrast. Black symbolizes night, drowsy objects. At night, the leading character in the novels sink into a unfamiliar environment, emerging variety of hallucination. The leading character's fear many lure the reader to guess and expect. Readers are good at determining the coming things. White symbolizes women's good looks. Between fear and desire, he could not control the attract of the white and tried to loving with a hideous who hostile and cruel. Black and white mean the imaging that main character thinking about female. Black means ugly and fear, the white beauty spoil a man to sensitive.Zhecun Shi compare the two kinds of color, showed conflict when man face woman and human face secret, it makes fear and curious. The image of female break up two parts that black and white. Following the conditions develop, the two colors mix ugly and beauty on a being by the subjective fantasy. It makes fresh experience for reader and fluency some incurrent in our world.The characters in his novels believe in ghost.' Inn's Mr.Ding,'A Hideout's Bian Shi Ming,' Demon Path's 'I' are all the intelligentsia. But they believe in ghost. these superstitious intelligentsia should be criticized. Yet Zhecun Shi does not criticize them. From literature angles,Zhecun Shi;s fearing ghost is a game. He imitates a way to Allen Poe's horror fiction. In Zhecun Shi's novels, the outside world's form is decided by people's will. This writing method has more modern times comparing with Allen Poe's novels.The third trilogy of Zhecun Shi' writing casts off the traditional ideas of literature, unfolding a strange world before the readers. His novels surpass the era. At that time, the literature circle could not understand this writing which is short of immediate significance. So he was unfrequented by literary history. But these novels represent the peak of imagination on Chinese modern literature. They show the other exploring of new literature.
Keywords/Search Tags:Unfathomable
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