On Jia Pingwa's Urban Novels

Jia Pingwa is one of the most influential writers in the history of Chinese contemporary literature.Since the 1990s,Jia Pingwa has tried to change his direction of creation,and has created a series of urban novels,from the reflection of rural social life,to reveal the modern urban people's psychological and human changes,to find the result of spiritual home.In this paper,through in-depth and detailed textual analysis of Jia Pingwa's urban novels,attempting to study the uniqueness and significance of Jia Pingwa's novels from the three aspects of the description' of urban landscape,the depiction of characters in the city and the dual reflection of urban and rural areas.In the introduction,the author gives a brief analysis of the creation and research status of Jia Pingwa's novels,and briefly describes the research purposes,ideas and methods of the thesis.The text is divided into three chapters:the first chapter analyzes the uniqueness of urban construction in Jia Pingwa's urban novels,mainly from the local flavor of Xi 'an city,the classical and traditional of Xi 'an city and the mysterious three aspects of Xi 'an city.The local flavor of the city of Xi'an contains the intimacy of close to the countryside and the dialogue with nature.At the same time,Xi'an is an ancient capital city,with a profound cultural background and a sense of mystery.Literature in the city,the author presented in subjective thoughts under the auspices of a kind of existence,is one of the authors actively constructing process,with its own cultural connotation and experience narration appearance and spirit of the city.The uniqueness of Xi'an in Jia Pingwa's novels is due to the original characteristics of the city and the author's own reasons.The combination of the two presents a charming city of Xi 'an.The second chapter mainly analyzes the three kinds of characters in Jia Pingwa's urban novels,one is the the puzzled intellectual,one is the tragic woman with a broken soul and non root bottom.These three types of people lost in the complex city,lost heart.The author analyzes and examines human nature in the background of the times and nationalities,thus revealing the weaknesses and defects of human nature profoundly.The author tries to compare all kinds of characters at the level of humanity rather than at the material level.Jia Pingwa transposes for the characters in the urban novels,blurring the background of the characters,committed to the universal human nature,manifests the because of their childhood experience and identity,the farmers in the works of modern city is showed a bias,and love the agriculture civilization of sentimentally attached to him.The third chapter mainly discusses the double criticism and reflection of Jia Pingwa on urban and rural areas.As a moment feel the modern civilization at the same time,deep love and care for the traditional writers,in the face of modern civilization and traditional culture of the contradictions and conflicts,Jia Pingwa in its urban novels,expressed his dual criticism and reflection on the urban and rural,not only realize the progress of modern civilization in the city,but also expose the ugliness of urban civilization.It not only regrets the passing of the beautiful side of the traditional culture,but also hates the inferiority of the peasants' human nature.Through the double criticism of urban and rural areas,the author thinks about the outlet of urban and rural areas,seeks spiritual home in the process of modernization,and raises people's thoughts on social development and spiritual home.The conclusion part sums up the achievement of jia Pingwa's urban novels.In the process of introspection,the family touches the ancient and complex ancient capital culture and the modern form of deformation in Xi'an,and expresses its real experience.which preserves and enriches the culture of Xi 'an,and reflects on the ancient and complex ancient capitalculture and the distorted social form of Xi 'an.