The Influence Of Foreign Writers To The Creation Of Yan Geling’s Novels

In 1989,Yan Geling passed the entrance examination College of the Arts at Columbia University.During her study at the university,Yan Geling read many literary classics of Europe and Latin America,and also received training in English writing skills.Her classes include American literature and Latin American literature.In order to obtain credits,She must imitate the masterpiece to write.In this process,She received the influence of the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov,Latin American gay writer Manuel Puig and Southern Gothic American Women Writers·Flannery O’Connor.Yan Geling repeatedly mentioned the influence of Nabokov,Puig and O’Connor for her creation in the speech,interview and prose.The first is the impact of Literary Concept.Yan Geling accepted some literature viewpoint of Nabokov,which contains literary creation is not to publicize ethics,literary writing should not be writers’ tool,readers are God of literary analysis.The human mind is complex and changeable.Psychoanalysis can not explain the depth of the human mind.Meanwhile,Yan Geling also affected the influence of Puig and O’Connor.When she arrived in the United States,She opposed to homosexual behavior and emotions.However,"kiss of the spider woman" of Puig changed her mind.She began to sympathize and understand the gays.As for O’Connor,On the one hand,Yan Geling didn’t agree O’Connor’s view of religion.On the other hand,She changed the image of God in these freak Novels.Yan Geling thought not God,but women who have a spirit of fraternity and tolerance of maternal character can save humanity.The Second is the impact of the theme creation.Yan Geling created a series of novels like their creative theme,such as four "Lolita"abnormal love novels,six gay novels,eight freak novels.In these novels,Yan Geling not only expressed similar or opposite literature concept with them,but also changed the specific creation methods with their own situation and need in characterization,narrative style.Why Yan Geling likes these foreign writers.I think the causes include both internal and external reasons.The first is the reality of the external environmental factor.Yan Geling is more than 30 years,but she could not speak a little English.She passed the way to apply for a full scholarship to Columbia while working and learning English hard.Thus,she realized and felt the difficulties of Chinese students and immigrants in US.And Nabokov,Puig,O’Connor works which contain people-centered values fit her creative idea in the literature transition period.So,it is inevitable for Yan Geling to accept the influence.The Second is the internal psychological emotion factors.When Yan Geling was 15,she joined the army and fell in love with a young officer.But the man betrayed her.Thepainful experience of Lolita Love hurt her.As well as,Yan Geling was courtshiped by lesbians in United States and suffered from depression in a very long time.These were emotional foundation why Yan Geling accepted the influence of the three authors.