A Study On The Theme Of Yan Lianke’s Novels

Yan Lianke,as one of the most influential works of contemporary Chinese literature,has a sharp,heavy,exaggerated,’ deformed,metaphorical,absurd,black humor and other style,some people call it novel weird realism,some called the grotesque realism,Some people call it political fable novels.There are divergent views on its evaluation.Recently,Yan Lianke was pushed to the pedestal of the most controversial writers,some critics criticized his work content filled with a variety of carnival,demonized educated youth,vilify the Chinese intellectuals and farmers material.Because his work often touch the bottom line of the Chinese censorship system,so four times banned("Four books" "Summer sunset" "Serve the people" "Ding Zhuang dream").Yan Lianke’s early works are written in a realistic,spicy style,describing the present situation of the bloody society.This article mainly studies the theme of Yan Lianke’s novels and explores its theme.Yan Lianke’s novels,when expressing the plight of survival,like Pandora’s box,All kinds of disasters come,but hope stay in the box,Individuals are forced to accept desperate fate,The group was forced to accept the desperate common destiny In his novels,in the face of the plight of survival is generally the predicament-struggling-failure-predicament-and then struggling-and then failure-predicament,such a death cycle show.The first chapter is the introduction,clarifies the research purpose and research significance of the thesis,the research status of Yan Lianke’s novel,and finally explains the research method of this thesis.The second chapter is the main theme of Yan Lianke’s novels,including the wounds in China times,the physical and life of the incurable disease,difficult to maintain the plight of life and the pursuit of power and money.Which is the era of the Great Leap Forward,the Great Steel,the famine,the Cultural Revolution,the physical incurable diseases,including disability,deaf,dwarf,blocking laryngeal disease,AIDS and so on.Difficult to maintain the plight of life,including alone to resist the famine,never finished marriage debt,but live forty nightmares.The author chooses these themes,and the fate of individuals and groups is always struggling-struggle-failure-and then struggle-and then fail.Overwhelming failure and doom always come on people’s head,Yan Lianke people will be placed under extreme conditions test,personal and the fate of the times closely linked together,the individual is the deepest scars of the times.The third chapter is the psychological reason and social factors that the author chooses these topics.The psychological reasons include his own experience and the family’s fate,and the social factors include the psychology of the public,the collective unconsciousness and the public psychology.