The Contemporary Metamorphosis Novel And Aesthetic Reflection

The Contemporary metamorphosis novel Truismes by French female writer Marie Darrieussecq was published in 1996. As one of most influential metamorphosis novels around the world, it not only had the exaggeration and absurdities of the deformation theme, but also made the new reflection and exploration for the body-metamorphosis. For a long time, people in different regions have been thinking of the human existence from the different horizons such as era background and social contradiction, but relatively ignored the dimension of body. Because of the body had metamorphosed, the subject had queer experience out of normality. Therefore, it has very important significance to study the Truismes on the base of body.This article is divided into three parts. It takes Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes as the analyzing object to discuss the relationship between metamorphosis novel and somaesthetics, with the theory of contemporary European and American body research for reference. First, it reviewed that the development of heteromorphosis thinking and metamorphosis novel. The "heteromorphosis" is both human creative aesthetic experience and artistic expression which had many classics in the history of world literature. Since the 20th century, people's bodily consciousness awakens gradually and the literary work also has its special meaning in this period. Especially in contemporary, body is more and more put into the social context, it is more obvious that the outside produced the imprint on body. It showed man's existence significance and anxiety on body which through the writer on the body of metamorphose mode. The second, it expound that the narrative thinking artistic features about body metamorphose in this book. Through the first-person narration and the heroine's monologue we can know that deformation course of heroine and meaning of communicate with external body. Hers bitter experience was show incisively and vividly in this long deformation process, and unfold the reason about the girl's deformation. In this process, the thought of girl awakes gradually and consciousness of resisting were expressed. The third, it was analyzed and explored that the Truismes represent to contemporary deformation literature the multiple meanings through a tradition strain novel of contrast. Being a human, she abandoned the body while the girl involved of moral failing and the overage desire. The girl lost her social identity when she became a sow, but the girl is not passive, she rebuild a new life in the sow's body, at last she present a "pig" girl in struggling.