On The Survival Of You Fengwei Novel Writing | Posted on:2010-11-18 | Degree:Master | Type:Thesis | Country:China | Candidate:C Li | Full Text:PDF | GTID:2205360275962712 | Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | You Fengwei is a writer with sense of responsibility and moral. He consciously stands on folk position, concerned about the survival of individuals with the perspective of intellectuals, expecting to arouse ponder upon survival in the process of showing individuals'living conditions. He is not skilled in writing novels with obvious tendency of emotion and clear result, but showing a positive orientation of value in plain language; No matter his works are based on history or reality, they all show a rational thinking and moral expression, not just event description or moral accusation. The theme of survival and ponderation over survival runs through all his works, whether it is life passage that describing war, China 1957 that showing the fate of intellectuals, or Lust, Loach that basing on contemporary urbanism,or"Shi-men Series"that having history legend style, or other novels with folk sentiment, they all show a ponder over life and survival. Survival plight, survival posture in plight and reflection on survival value constitute the framework of survival expression. This article analysis You Fengwei's survival expression from the three aspects of confusion and wandering, exiles and persistence, survival foreordination and redemption.The first chapter expatiates cruel reality environment and individual's living on a degradation from the two aspects of survival background and hardness of living. Starting from war, social and historical events, contemporary urbanism, You Fengwei express individuals'survival privation. Through these, You Fengwei wants to tell readers that, the real survival privation makes living a tragic setting at the beginning of life. The confusion of period made them confused. They have no way to run but accept and burden tough environment.The second chapter expatiate the different choices of survival posture and survival philosophy when facing survival plight from the two aspects of self-exile and character faithfulness. You Fengwei demonstrated different survival plights in different environments, and expressed different survival posture and value choice holding by different individuals. There are fortitudinous tribulation bearers, watcher of freedom, and there are also individuals that slide into abyss of evil. Individuals that choose self-imposed exile moved toward abruption of spirit, loss of self-identity or lonely drifter. Individuals that persist in spirit value either rebirth when facing death and pursuit survival's meaning or pursuit the spirit of independence and self-realization during physical torture. You Fengwei expressed his ultimate reflection of life through his expression of positive and negative survival posture The third chapter seeks the meanings and value judgments being implicated by You Fengwei's works through analysis of survival foreordination and the tendency of salvation.This part is a sublimation of the two parts of the former article. It discusses spirit character in the works after displayed the survival plight and the survival posture in plight. Section I of this chapter expresses survival foreordination lies in You Fengwei's works. Under his description, physical freedom and spirital freedom can not coexistence, individuals move toward to loneliness. Section II expresses the tendency of salvation in the literature of You Fengwei's works. He affirmed the spirit strength and sincerity of heart, and attempted to inject spirit power into survival under the guide of his humanitarianism.You Fengwei is established in the contemporary literary era as a humanitarian. He figured many vivid characters and reflected individual's survival during different period and different historical background. His novels enriched the content of contemporary writing, and contributed to the development of Chinese contemporary literature. | Keywords/Search Tags: | You Fengwei, Survival plight, Survival posture, Survival foreordination and redemption | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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