Heller In China

Joseph Heller (1923—1999), contemporary American writers, resoundsthrough the literary arean because of the representative works "Catch22". He published several novels after the book caused an uproar in theliterary world, too. Commentators on all around the world exposition toHeller omni-directional elaboration, especially to "Catch 22" reacheda heated level.At the end of 70s, the last century, Heller was first introducedto China. Chinese writers satisfied his novels, apart from giving riseto an admirable study of Heller, and affected a large number of creativewriters in the short term, such as Wang Xiaobo, Liu Suola, Mo Yan's novelwriters have obviously Heller's influence. What a pity is, the domesticpaper has yet to conclude the current situation of Heller in China, andreaders has no highlights from the macro-Review to grasp Heller. Majorityof elaborates author's achievement or the analysis text on the singlenovel, it is fragment.Point to the present situation, the paper intends to conclude thethree-part to summarize Heller in China. Namely:Chapter 1: Heller: from the United States to China. Heller as theclassics in the 1960s is preferred and accepted by the Chinese writers,is not accidental. This chapter attends to confess its reason from threeaspects: the social big environment, the writer's psychology demand, theliterature own rule of development.Chapter 2: The research of Heller in China. This chapter also aim tointroduce Heller from three areas: the translation situation of Heller'sworks in China, the comment situation on Heller's works in China and thecharacteristics of domestic researches on Heller from the beginning upto now, sought to understand, classify, evaluate Heller more objectively.Chapter 3: The influence to Chinese Writers by Heller. Any novel realize it's own values in the exchanges with readers, and through itssuper values by impacting on readers. This chapter on the key pointintroduced the influences which Heller to the Chinese multitudinouswriter's, especially, the intrinsic similars of Wang Xiaobo's novel"interesting" and Heller's novel "black humor" tell the acception andthe influence' s relationship between them. However, affects' anothersignificance lies in its own beyond and innovation. So, the final of thischapter has written the acceptance and variation of Heller in china,highlighted the different values of Sino-U.S. writers, the differentcultural between China and America.These are the main contents of this article. Summary does not meanthe end, but notice of hope. In foreign exchange, writers learn from eachother and absorb each other, grow and mature. Believe, in the future,there will be more exchanges between Chinese and foreign literature toa new height. World-Literature will prosperous and powerful byintercommunion.