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Conception Of Death And The Spirit Of Yu Hua Novel Characteristics

Posted on:2009-03-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360272956202Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Yuhua is the recognized famous novelist in the Literary World of the contemporary China. He has created numbers of novels of various different kinds of styles with his own unique literary viewpoint. He has devoted his enthusiasm about literature to the matter of life and death, so his novels abound in such narratives related life and death which can be seen everywhere.Facing death and observing sorts of death states, Yuhua has boldly described them in his novels according to his own thinking. In his writing, death is shown as a terrorist landscape or an incredible labyrinth and most of the causes of the deaths accompanied by violence. Nevertheless, fear, violence and absurdity are the perspectives from which he thinks of deaths and they are the superficial phenomena of which describing deaths. Yuhua has focused on the philosophy of death, thinking of life in view of death. Death is the destruction of life as well as the survival of digestion, and plays a role in warning and explaining of life from another perspective.Suffering is the true state of the survival. Yuhua has displayed clearly about the oppression of violence, the pain of death, the hardships of the daily life of and so on in the novels, and have described the injury and the threat of the people's life in detail caused by them. The proliferation of the social violence causes not only the innocent person killed but also the invisible oppression of the people who often live in such an environment. Death makes the related people experience extreme suffering as well as it makes the parties painful physically and mentally. Moreover, he notices the difficulty and hardships of the form of the trivial life.The writer has been exploring the meaning of life in thinking of the death and inspecting the state of the life. It is just the existence of the suffering which makes the absurd life meaningful. People experience suffering in life now and then and have to fight against and break free from the suffering. The significance of the human survival is just born in the tragic suffering and shows the strong tenacious will to survive of the human.
Keywords/Search Tags:fear, absurdity, suffering, violence, significance
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