The Exploration Of The Impact Of Foreign Literature On Yu Hua's Creation

Since the 1980s, the burgeoning of the foreign literary works and theories posed a profound influence on Chinese contemporary literature. Yu Hua is quite initiative and representative one of contemporary writers on foreign literature's acceptance. From his avant-garde novels to his transformation in literary creation, we may see the profound influence of foreign literature on Yu Hua's creation.In the 1980s, Yu Hua benefited primarily from the 20th century western literature, particularly modernism and postmodernism theories and creation. Kafka's wicked human nature subject, the Boor Hess's narration labyrinth as well as Lou Bergh Rica's theory about writing things have had profound influence to Yu Hua's creation. In this period, Yu Hua only reached imitating level on the reference of foreign literature. In the 1990s, under Faulkner's inspiration, Yu Hua chose "the temperate way" and integrated the foreign and Chinese literature resources. As a result, he made a successful creative reform. Ten years later, the novel "Brothers" written by Yu Hua was influenced by the 19th century critical realism writers' "the intensity narrated" and the Dostoyevsky's "the duplicate accent novel". But because his understanding is too simple and superficial, "Brothers" is not a successful breakthrough on Yu Hua's creation.On Yu Hua's growth path, the foreign literature played a key role which leaded Yu Hua to mature, but it also caused Yu Hua's unbalance on the imitation and the innovation. This article attempts to discuss the influence of the foreign literature on Yu Hua's creation, as well as the successes or failures of Yu Hua's creation which bought by Yu Hua's attitude towards the foreign literature.