Disintegration And Redemption:On The Study Of Time Consciousness Of Yan Lianke's “Palou Series” Novels

With the unique time encoding such as “reversal”,sub-text,geng,Yan Lianke expounds the traditional time experience characterized by integrality and circulating,and the time crisis under the modernization process in the “Palou series” novels.By the disintegration process of the circulation time consciousness in rural district under the impact of linear time,we can see the survival misery and personal changes of the Chinese farmers suffering from the dilemma between traditional and modern civilization.As the natural time gradually ceasing to be effective,the ritual time being rupture,the history time being downgraded and the utopia of linear time consciousness being disillusioned,the fragment of time experience of the novel lead to the fission of the relationship between human and the nature,the rural traditional culture and ethical value along with social development.However,Yan Lianke focused on the individual inner world from the perspective of memory and psychological time instead of being stuck in the rut of nihilism.Yan rebuilt the integrality of time with nostalgia and epiphany,to resist against the value nihilism after the integrality of time was dispelled,and make the efforts and breakthrough to rebuild the rural home and individual values.The consciousness of time of Yan's novel will create a new connection between native literature and world literature.