Be Unable To Escape From The Spiritual “Disorder”

In the 1990’s,with the development of the city by leaps and bounds,urban culture has become the spindle of social culture.Urban literature came into being. Since then,novels that themed with urban culture replaced those countryside-themed fictions and gradually became the mainstream of literary world in China. Among a great number of urban novels in the 1990’s,with the attitude of “making truth into falsity ”and“personalized writing” and “far as calm, closer to nature”of narrative style, Han Dong cannot be overlooked among writers at the same period.Han Dong shows great interest in shaping new images and exploring different character types. In his city novels, he creates a group of wanderers who lingered on the edge of the city. Wandering and spirit drift were the main characteristics of these images. Han Dong’s city novels also reveal that people who live in the cities face spiritual “disorder”and reflect the mutation of soul of people in cities. In order to reveal the various “obstacles”in their emotional life and plot the spiritual landscapes of modern people, Han Dong often focuses on the men and women in the modern city and analyzes the complex relationship between them. Through his exquisite brushwork, Han Dong portrays the inner world of the modern people, digs into every inch of their inner world and pokes their weak souls. Besides, Han Dong’s city novels also carries on the beneficial exploration in terms of narrative skills. Han Dong uses the first-person narrative perspective, limited zero narrative, meta novel narrative and so on to analyze love stories and psychological process of modern people by the flat and loose narrative approach.