Clarification And Covering Of Intellectuals In Ningken’s Full-Length Novels

Ningken is a profound knowledge writer in Chinese contemporary literary world. After trying several literary forms, such as poetry and prose, he selected using novel to reward life and express the understanding, feeling and confusion of social life. Historical transformation in the 1980s was put on a prominent position in the literature time of Ningken. The reflection on history let people see the destiny and Ningken’s thought of intellectuals in the 1980’s was intended to control the life and look for a way out. Five novels, which based on this background, created distinctive characteristics of intellectuals, who are witness, experiencer and rebel of historical transformation, and also are important break outs to understand the novels. The silence, lost, and fled of intellectuals derived from the forgotten of their own mission which made them facing homeless. In order to get rid of this state and find a way out, it is necessary to consider the destiny of intellectuals from historical significance and to find the truth of existence.Therefore, The first chapter explain the background of the 1980s, do deep analysis on the historical circumstances of intellectuals in the transition period and spiritual dilemma "forgotten in the", and find the inherent clue after comparing with the May Fourth period intellectuals. In the second chapter, the accumulation of knowledge makes intellectuals keeping a clear head, but the pressure of reality let them choose covering. The third chapter reveals Ningken’s novels thinking covering. The truth should be clarity, but reality usually presented in the form of covering. If we want to know the truth, we must first grasp the shield which is the self-shadowing of clarity. The contrast of politics and the introduction of Tibetan culture are only literature techniques to achieve covered. The basic reason of difficulties in understanding Ningken’s novel is the profound thinking to the destiny of intellectuals. In the fourth chapter, transparent was obtained from covering. Ningken’s novels were more important in finding truth than trying to survival. The way of intellectuals to find themselves, know themselves and change beyond themselves is just the way to covering layer by layer, in order to handle the destiny of intellectuals and find a way for modem intellectuals, reject violence, finally been saved.