Mo Yan's Novels Are Explored

Mo Yan is known as the writer who is best at story talking in the history of Chinese contemporary literature.Mo Yan has always been the focus of literary studies,whether Mo Yan cutting a striking figure in the literary world or enjoying attention,making a blockbuster or in dispute.The entire literary world and the whole of China are quite excited and encouraged by the news that Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012,another wave of research on Mo Yan started.From ordinary readers to scholars,media commentary to academic discussion,we can see so much related research in news,newspapers,periodicals,papers or monographs.This article is based on the specific text of Mo Yan’s novels in five aspects to explain the special significance of novelty to Mo Tan and the rich content and unique temperament of Mo Yan’s novelty.The novella has a great significance to Mo Yan,whether it is from the number of creation or creative achievements.The style of the novel is unique,the definition of novella is not clear enough,and the definition and classification of novella is difficult to be clear.As a writer who grew up in the 1980s’ the Craze of the Novella,this kind of phenomenon also exists in Mo Yan’s novella creation,for example,some novels are known as the small-long story or medium-long story,some novels are composed of several series of short stories,some novels are collected and published into long story.At the same time,novella is also an excellent way to study Mo Yan.Mo Yan became famous for the novel "transparent carrot" in 1985,the literary world didn’t pay so much attention to this little-known writer until Mo Yan published several series of novel that has explosive effect.Because of the publication of "Joyfulness",Mo Yan became the controversy writer in the literary world in 1987.However,Mo Yan rarely created novella since 2000.Mo Yan has contributed his precious the first literary attempt so many times in the creation of the novella.We can not only excavate the abundant contents in Mo Yan’s novels,but also can discover the unique temperament in Mo Yan’s novella.The image of women,animal complex and special symbols are often expressed in Mo Yan’s novella.Mo Yan is accustomed to separate the female images in the novella into three categories.The first type of heroine is a woman that fall in love with another man,and often in pursuit of her lover and pay the price at last,although there is an adolescent young brother may love her.In this model women’s naked breast and plot of making love with lover in secret place are always repeated.The second category is a woman that doesn’t have happy marriage and can be divided into married a man that she doesn’t love or doesn’t love her in specifically.The former is represented by Dai-Fenglian,they dare to pursue their own happiness in boldly,the latter women’s image either is in same like as the former or in opposite that make compromise with her inner feelings.The third category is a woman that as great as mother.There is a woman named Liu-Shuye in Mo Yan’s novel,she made a great contribution to the family and played role of sister,lover and mother,and showing the dedication and greatness of women.The animal complex in Mo Yan’s novels is in three aspects.The first type of animal complex is use the name of animal to name the characters in the novel,the second type is use animal image to metaphor,the third type is use animal image to express inner feelings.In addition,Mo Yan also particularly like to describe special symbols,such as ears,ghosts,feces and so on.Learning from the way storyteller used to tell stories and adhere to the civilized position to express stories,it makes Mo Yan’s novella to maintain a strong local temperament.Due to the ingenious narrative strategy and intensely care of modernity,we can see the formation of modern temperament.The local temperament and modern temperament constitute the unique temperament in Mo Yan’s novels in together.