The Extreme Writing Of Yanlianke's Palou Series Novels

Yan Lianke, as an outstanding writer in the contemporary literary world, has shown a significant tendency of extreme writing in several important works in the 90s after transformation of creation. This is not only embodied in his preferences for extreme themes, characters and plots, but also refers to that his novels bring readers powerful impact and shock in aspects of language, style and narration, causing great challenge to readers' aesthetic expectation and reading vision. This tendency repeatedly appears in Palou series of Yan Lianke and fixed into a kind of writing style which is extreme writing.Taking the extreme writing of Yan Lianke's Palou series as the research object, this paper discusses several main problems. What is wring text in Yan Lianke's Palou series novels?In what forms these contents are expressed (language, style or narration)? What is the text of extreme writing? What are the deep psychology of writer behind these texts?This paper is divided into three parts. The first part is the introduction, which mainly introduces the creation of Yan Lianke, research status and makes a brief statement of the core concepts and the object of the paper.The extreme writing in this paper not only refers to the writer's preference for extreme themes, plots and characters, but also refers to strong impact and shock on readers' expectation and reading vision by abnormal narration in language and style. In the novel, the extreme characters, plots and scenes challenge extreme suffering, extreme response of characters and the readers' extreme acceptance by the magic of language, the stylistic variation and extraordinary narration. It is a writing of critical point of life and death. This is the connotation of extreme writing in this paper. The paper discusses the object of Yan Lianke's Palou series novels, including The Fleeting Time as Sunlight and Date and several important novels which take people and affairs in Palou as the writing object. The paper makes detailed analysis and research of Yan Lianke's Palou series by the method of detailed reading of the text of the new criticism, narrative and linguistic theory.The second part includes the first chapter to the third chapter, which is the main body of this paper.The first chapter analyzes the content carrier of Yan Lianke's Palou series novels. In content, there are a lot of extreme events and irrational characters in Yan Lianke's novels,such as collective prostitution for defying death, die of suicide for getting rid of the disease, paranoid village head with strong sense of power, the county who dreams of getting rich by politic way and fanatics who suffer from the madness disease of revolution and love. The Palou world fills with natural calamities and man-made misfortunes, dementia and disability, exhumation, raping and killing and other unconventional events. By intensive meticulous description and rendering, the author depicts a cruel world which is full of primitive struggle and vitality. This chapter makes discussion from three aspects of extreme subject, extreme characters and extreme plots.The second chapter analyzes the construction of extreme writing in Yan Lianke's Palou series novels. Its narrative paranoia (extraordinary use of onomatopoeia and cascade words, complex dialect slang language and red language), the abnormal deformation of stylistic structure (inverted space-time cable source, parallel control of text, narrative interludes), and extraordinary use of narrative strategies (slow narrative rhythm and huge narrative density, close narrative distance, frequent narration of extreme events), all of these which consist of language, style and narration form the construction of extreme narrative style in Palou series novels.The third chapter mainly discusses the internal perspective of Yan Lianke's extreme writing, mainly focusing on text perspective and the writer's psychological motivation.The frequent extreme events and the fate of characters in Palou mountains are allegory expression of the local social suffering. With his own pen, the writer presents Sisyphus revolt fable in the realm of extreme writing and deep desire of human nature in the suffering fable. Under the narrative paranoid in extreme writing, it is the writer 's psychological anxiety which comes from the life experience of the writer. As a writer in the writing opposite between the urban and the rural, his self identity anxiety comes from embarrassment of military and farmer identity in the urban and rural areas. His life experience and life in the military repression lead to power worship and fear. The death of his loved ones and the writer's own body illness lead to his life worship and fear to death. These are deep psychological mechanism of writer in extreme texts.The third part is the conclusion. This part focuses on the overall discussion of Yan Lianke's extreme writing and highlights its particularity in contemporary literacy world.There is no doubt that with unusual courage,Yan Lianke challenges all kinds of extreme themes and faces the dark side of the reality. His dedication to the exploration of art of novels creates a "wall art". But in the process of exploring the innovation of art form,he is deliberately in pursuit of innovation, bring problems of destruction of art beauty and rigid repetition of creation mode which caused by inadequate restraint. But it is also this kind of creation and destruction that make the extreme writing of Yan Lianke's Palou series becomes remarkable writing in contemporary literature.