Discussion On Qrtistic Character Istics And Theoretical Or Igin About Li Yu’s Novel

Li Yu is an important novelist at early years of Qing Dynasty. He published two short stories: Voiceless Opera(later changed into Lianchengbi) and Twelve Towers, containing thirty short stories. His novel is compact in structure, usual in plot and is full of wit and humor.The article is divided into five parts:The first part is introductions, which is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the contradictory mentality of Li Yu in elite culture and civil culture. The second section presents the novel editions of Li Yu. The third section briefly introduces the current situation of researches on Li Yu.The second part is the structural art of Li Yu’ novel. Li Yu’ novel is distinct in theme and the plot also serves the theme. Therefore, Li Yu’ novel is tight in overall structure. In internal structure, Li Yu uses artistic expression such as, act in cooperation, ambush cooperation to make his novel tight and exquisite. It also discusses the theoretical origin of the structural art in Li Yu’ novel.The third part is the plot art. It summarizes two features of plot art in Li Yu’ novel: virtuality and reality combination and peculiar interest. It discusses the logistics and reason behind the virtuality of Li Yu starting from the virtuality and reality, as well as discusses Li Yu’ inheritance and development. Besides, it discusses the peculiar interest according to the characteristics of " Special in each article and each word", " skill in speciality and combination of speciality and skill", and " moderate peculiar interest", as well as its inheritance and development for theory of peculiar interest.The fourth part is the language art. In location of language style, Li Yu redefines the popularity except for considering the reading ability of readers, namely adds the style of scholar, thus forming elegance in popularity. Meanwhile, Li Yu creates them to entertain people, so the language in his novel is also humorous. What’ more, he describes people in language and creates different words for different roles to show their characteristic. Therefore, the language is also distinct.The fifth part is the novel value of Li Yu. Li Yu makes " Voiceless Opera" as his novel value. It not only reflects that he adapts the novel to opera, but also reflects that he introduces the opera creation theory into novel creation, forming unique novel style. However, he ignores the basic difference between opera and novel, making the novel inevitable defects. His novel value of pursuit for comedy is manifested in the effect of pursuing entertainment on one hand, and on the other hand, it is also a attitude for self-entertainment shown in his compromise for reality.