Chenran's Novels Lonely Journey

Chen Ran is both an important and unique writer in contemporary literature,whose strong feminist consciousness has acquired recognition of peers.The uniqueness of her writing lies on that the theme of novels never cast light on the nation or ethnos.Instead,she choose to keep away from the mainstream of culture,in the perspective of a man on the brink,persistently explore the lives of these disadvantaged minority especially those of women-s,which manifest the investigation and exploration of the survival of women themselves,deeply probing into the gender dilemma that women can hardly find self perfection under the background of patriarchal society.All through her works,be it"Toast to the past""Nowhere to say goodbye""A century’s disease""Private life" or "the september that the bald women can’t get out of",loneliness is the clue that runs through the whole passage and loneliness has become the essential element of her writing.It is by self interpretation of women’s experience and bare exposure of women’s body that to some extent overturn the idea of male-centred and social-constructed politics as well as morality,analysing male centered-value and aesthetic standards of men’s utterance.This paper,through careful reading,will mainly focus on the difference of loneliness in her works step by step which the latter one is far deeper than the former one.In the terms of the theme of loneliness,this paper intends to discuss the issue from following aspects.Chapter1:By the way of careful reading,the paper list and classify the lonely figures in the novel.This essay,mainly from the following three aspects,articulates the shortage and helplessness in terms of family,hopelessness love and disappointment friendship.They constantly seek for spiritual shelter but instead receiving the solitary of the soul. A a result,they return back to their own heart and find some comfort of peace.Chapter2:To dissect the reason attribute to the loneliness of the heroin through the difficulty of surviving,the frustration of time flying and urban civilization.The difficulty of survival includes the dissatisfaction of the physical desire and there being no shelter for spirit.The aging and death brought by time flying frustrate heroins much greater than before.And loneliness arises.The urban civilization isolate and disconnect people by pose shackles to human and limit the freedom of the soul. Chapter3:In terms of survival,the paper further exploit the loneliness and its meaning.The loneliness in Chan Ran’s works is not only limited to the spiritual dilemma particular to women,it also reflects the spirit dilemma that human encountered in the course of progression.That worth our attention.In the works of Chan Ran,loneliness on the one hand stands for the spiritual dilemma human encountered,on the other hand indicates the maturity of soul.It’s when human learn to enjoy loneliness that they can live independently.Chapter4:Loneliness exists forever.It live along with human,and it’s inevitable.Thus,the main point of this chapter lie on the Chan Ran’s attempt to find solutions for human to overcome loneliness,treating life in a detached mannerand treating love regardless of bias of gender.Through the analyses of the figures and content of novels,this paper,loneliness being assumed to be the main perspective,demonstrates the state of the loneliness of modern people as a whole...