Research On Tragic Connotation Of Liu Zhenyun’s Novels

Liu Zhenyun is a valiant general in the contemporary literary circles, whose novels have a great success. By combing Liu Zhenyun’s works of different periods, you will find a lot of implicit tragedy factors in his novels. Whether tragic plot, or tragic content reflects the author’s emotional tendencies, human feelings as well as his philosophical thinking of life.Exploring the tragic connotation of Liu Zhenyun’s novels broaden the research angle from the horizontal and deepen the content of the work from the verticalLiu Zhenyun has a sense of tragedy and he integrates it into his own creation. On the subject, the survival tragedy, the deceased tragedy, the fated tragedy and the human tragedy constitute the four major themes of Liu Zhenyun’s novels. Concerning about the situation of human existence, he writes a survival tragedy, not only shows the poor material living conditions of the characters, but also displays the helpless spirit of them. Concerning about the fate of human life and death, Liu Zhenyun writes a deceased tragedy, revealing the painful death scenes in the historical process and the irreplaceable personal death in the everyday life. Concerning about transmigration of the human fate,he writes the fated tragedy, and his characters bear the sad death fate and lonely fate like caged animals. Concerning about the human nature, Liu Zhenyun writes a human tragedy, exposing the selfish human nature and the distorted humanity.Under the guiding of these tragic themes, Liu Zhenyun shapes the kinds of tragic hero. In these hero, some bear the weight of the power and lose the normal form as a human, and become tragic figures who alienated by power. Some come out from the rural and resides in the cities, but also lose themselves in the materialistic urban space, and become the objects of consumption, who are disjointed with their hometown in the spirit. Some lack objects that can be communicated with in the real-life, and become the struggling lonely individual who are coerced into the onely fate.Liu Zhenyun is a very influential writer right now, whose artistic technique of the novels is quite mature. Liu Zhenyun upholds his consistent attitude and uses joy to express sorrow, thus forming a strong tension between joy and sorrow, highlighting the tragic connotations when he shows the tragic content. In the meantime, he applys the irony, parody and other techniques and the writing of ugliness appreciation, so he lets the readers experience funny and solemn and stirring of the novels, feel the characters’humbleness and pitiableness, understand the helplessness and trivialness of life, and see the depravity and dirty of human.Liu Zhenyun is a writer and a bitter critic, just like Lu Xun, he also sets his own a philosophy of existence in his heart. He always upholds writer’s duty and conscience, thinking in the creation, but also continue to create when he thinks;His work reveals a kind of humanitarian spirit. At first, he explores the unreasonableness and the absurdity of contemporary people’s living, and reveals the status of contemporary alienation, understanding the group’s irrational survival state, caring for the individual circumstances. Secondly, as a direct successor of Lu Xun’s critical spirit, Liu Zhenyun dares to sincerely and boldly face life, exposing the life of "flesh and blood." His novels reveal a strong critical sense, and he not only shows the destruction of valuable things of life, but also deeply dissects the ugly national character and the dirty power struggle game behind the tragedy, thus further deepening the tragic implication of his novels. Of course, dissection and criticizable are not Liu Zhenyun’s ultimate goal. He exposes the ugly reality actually want to call bright, and he reveals the ugly human nature to wake up the gradually numb contemporary citizens, letting us think about our lives, reflect on our humanity, and then change the grotesque situation.