False Lies

Agota Kristof is a woman writer of Swiss Hungarian. Evil Child Trilogy is the representative work of Agota Kristof, which is combined by her three French novels Le Grand Cahier, La PreuveLe, and Troisieme Mensonge. Evil Child Trilogy is a series of tragic stories in the background of the Second World War and the Cold War in Hungary. The three novels are coherent in plot, but have different characteristics in genre, structure, and narrative angle. So they can be seen as three separate narrative text, or an integral story at the same time. Agota Kristof is a novelist with self-conscious pursuit in the art of fiction. In Evil Child Trilogy, Agota Kristof built up a large and complex narrative labyrinth with elaborate narrative units and multiple narrative perspectives. In the text, the author dropped her voice to the lowest. She wrote novels with concise, cold, with neutral and a tone of no value evaluation. Agota Kristof shows an absurd living space and complicated human nature in her works.Evil Child Trilogy is unique in the theme and artistic style. These novels have been widely acclaimed in Europe, however, the research on Agota Kristof and her works is not enough in China. In this paper, I am planning to analyze Evil Child Trilogy with methods of narrative study, close reading, the survey of literature mainly to explore the theme and style of the novels in order to reveal the unique literary value of the novels. There are five sections which are as follows:Section one gives an introduction of the plot line and the overall structure of Evil Child Trilogy, then the creation background of Agota Kristof and research summaries.Section two gives the analysis of the image of characters. The twin brothers and insomniacs will be analyzed in order to reveal the root of these characters’ pathological mental condition.Section three does the analysis of the narrative art of the three novels from the aspects of genre, narrative structure, narrative angle, and explore the metafictional techniques and their effects in Evil Child Trilogy.Section four gives the analysis of the overall artistic style of Evil Child Trilogy, including does an analysis on the method that the novels expresses thoughts in a euphemistic and winding style and modernity experience the novel conveyed.Section four gives a conclusion on the reading experience and the theme of the traumatic memories of Evil Child Trilogy.