In The New Century Of Military Novels " Hero Complex "

At the beginning of literature history, the usage of literature was describing love and recording war. So the military literature focuses on two points: war scene and battalion life, war scene can express the soldiers' heroism in wartime and battalion life express soldiers' devotion and sacrifice in peacetime. No matter during the wartime or the peacetime, all the famous military novels are concern in heroism. So if we look back our nation's famous and popular military novels, the main theme is always heroism.From the establishment of PRC to the culture revolution, which is 17 years, the military novels were under the lead of politics, and after the reform and opening policy, the writer liberated their ideology. Now the military novels of the present age enter the new century, they are under the atmosphere of multi-culture. A lot of military writers disentangle from past, and in the multi-voice and multi-culture atmosphere, their style is more individuation and more free. By the carrier of river novel, they examine and express the spirit of hero, in this way, they communicate with our society in full aspects and full levels. With their help, the military literature changes from tradition to new century. Take "shining sword" for example, a lot of military novels have become a beautiful landscape in the new century literature family. They have different meaning and style. Some of them look for hero from history, some of them try to find hero from reality. No matter history or reality, their exciting heroism wins all the readers of today. New century, the military novels make a large progress in figuring the traditional hero. They add energy to old military literature, and push the level of the military novels to a new field. For this article, at the beginning, we study the meaning of the hero spirit; analyze the different meaning of hero in military novels, especially the progress they have made in more than half century. Then we talk about the breakthrough and creation of new century military novels, especially in figuring heroes. By this way, we can make analyze and forecast for the military literature in new century.