From To Live To The7th Day

From To Live，the writing concept of Yu Hua was changed, his writing paradisewas transformed from the fantasy world to the infinite truth. In1995, Yu hua wrote The Story of Xu Sanguan’s Selling Blood, which was a better work of realism and profound symbol for realism to him. After the release of The Story of Xu Sanguan’s Selling Blood, Yu hua was always engaged in writing the essay, and he published the collection of the essay. Brother (part1) was published after he came back for novel writing, comparing with the formerly renowned To Live and The Story of Xu Sanguan’s Selling Blood with non-narration style, Brother made the story clue and detail outstanding,which combined the tough experience of protagonist with warm relative relationship,the moving story of brother was completed. Nevertheless, more cultural elements wereadded that led this novel to descend from the status of pride in literature, making itread by the public. But the shortage of this long novel is very obvious, the writer was in the state of out of control, he was not able constrain what he wrote, the deviation still stayed in the writing, a lot of words were used to depict long paragraph of sexual content and the legendary history of Li Guangtou’s path to wealth. It lost the enlightening spirit in Yelling in the drizzle, The Story of Xu Sanguan’s Selling Blood and To Live. Yu Hua still wrote the story about unimportant person in The7thDay, hecast his perspective on the civil news happened in recent years, something dirty, despicable and disgraceful were manifested. Yu Hua went back and forth in the world of life and death with the skill of magical realism, he criticized and examined the reality,giving readers two different feelings of greatest cruelty and warmth. Meanwhile, fromthe artistic angle, the flaw of The7thDay is very obvious, it confuses the boundary between novel and news, reducing the aesthetic meaning of literature. This is the problem of writing tendency that is worse than the commonality in Brother. Generally speaking, from To Live to The7thDay, Yu Hua experienced the enlightening comeback and criteria setback, which indicated his weakness of writing, this problem is not only owned by Yu Hua but a phenomenon of writing.