Born And Neighbors

During the May 4 Period ,the rise of local novels added a unique literarylandscape to Chinese modern literature in growth stage.Although there were someworks which still did not mature enough and were lack of deficient skills,as the sourceof Modern local novels,It was enough to occupy a space in the history of literature onthe stage.These native novelists rising in the late of 1920’formed schools in infectionof Lu Xun.When they followed the banner of enlightenment and used pen as gun toenter the village,death tragedy became the dreary landscape in their texts. This paperchooses the realistic local novels of the May 4 period as the main research object, andprobes the deep meaning structure behind their death writing.The paper is divided into three parts,including introduction,body andconclusion.Body part is divided into three chapters.Introduction,It summaries the background and the significance in literary historyof the May 4 local novels,and shows that these novelists portrayed so much death intheir texts while pushing farmers on the center stage of the new literature.The first chapter,the types of death writing of the May 4th’local novels.Paperdiscusses that in their texts were a variety of different death descriptions.Itincluded:death caused by diseases or natural disasters,death caused by men’ssubjective fault or the reality of the objective situation,and suicide selected by one’sown.The second chapter,the artistic characteristic of the death writing of the May4th’local novels.Paper discusses the artistic characteristic of such death writing.Deathdescription in their writing was so direct and terror that it broke through the traditionalliterary aesthetic paradigm.Attempt to modern writing techniques not only means ofthe skills to update and literary thinking change,but also full of modern flavor.Figureof tragedy,tragic conflict and tragic ending interpreted the tragic aesthetic style inthese texts from three different dimensions.The three chapter, the spiritual characteristic of the death writing of the May 4th’local novels.Paper discusses the spiritual characteristic of such death writing.In thesummon of the individuality principle,individual consciousness of death becameawake,and the essence of the local novelist’s death writing is to promoteindividualism and individual spiritual liberation.In concern about the fate of ournation,with their unique death description they were looking for the balance point ofenlightenment and salvation.Modern scientific and rational knowledge reshaped thelocal novelists’time concept and the concept of life and death,so they used deathdescription to express the pursuit of the freedom and value of life.Conclusion part,set the realistic local novels of the May 4 period into thecrisscrossing coordinate of the literary history ,and analyze its historical position andbasic evaluation.