On The Self-abasement And Transcendence Of The Author From The Perspective Of Portrait Of LuYao’s Novels

Lu Yao, a deceased Chinese writer, is of great importance to the Contemporary Chinese Literature. He insists on realistic methods to create works, which include "During the difficult days","Life","Ordinary World" and others. The figures created in his works, such as Ma Jianqiang, Gao Jialin, Sun Shaoping and Sun Shaoan, all present a vivid image with uneven exprerience and complex characteristics, thus making the pictures of contemporary Chinese figures more colourful. The protagonists in Lu Yao’s works are always the educated rural youth who live in "the crossroads of urban and rural areas", and the main plots are about how they finally find a place of their own in cities, the difficulties, humiliation they have suffered on the way forward and the internal conflicts. After reading Lu Yao’s works, we can find, in the figures of his works, including Gao Jialin, Ma Jianqiang, Sun Shaoping and Sun Shaoan, who are all from poor farming families, an inevitable sense of self-abasement, frustration and bitterness that cannot transcend the reality when they are in face of the strong earthly power and the oppression as well as temptation produced as a result of the cities’civilization. The source of self-abasement manifested in Lu Yao’s novels comes from the sense of inferiority in the author’s consciousness. However, this feeling of self-abasement from their deep heart dose not make the characters desperate, hopeless, but make them have a clearer and more profound understanding of the reality and their own situations. They gradually set an attitude of self-esteem, self-reliance and self-confidence, and begin to actively seek for the paths to break through the troubles. They are not only strong in challenging the outside world, but also in conquering themselves towards the rejuvenation of their spirits. The educated rural youth’s struggle from self-abasement to self-transcendence is a vivid portrayal of the writer himself. Together with the figures he has created in the works, Lu Yao also experiences the taste of inferiority reasuling from material poverty, urban-rural differences and mental depression, suffers success and failure, contradiction and conflict, and constantly fights for the future and destiny of theirs, aiming at finally achieveing self-esteem and self-realization.