A Study On The Character Image Of Village Head In Yan Lianke's Novels

Yan Lianke is a writer who is very special in present literary world in Ch ina.With a series of excellent works,he has won wide attention and praise fro m critics and readers.Yan Lianke is a peasant,the small village at the junction of the mountains of the Funiu and the mountains of the Balou in Henan provi nce is the birthplace of him.It is also the source of his literary creation.The du al identity of the farmer and the writer overlaps in Yan Lianke.But he always sees the farmer as more important,He kept a foothold in the countryside and k ept watch over the countryside.Yan lianke is raised in the countryside,but it also brought him endless darkness.The backwardness,poverty and ignorance of the rural world have cast a shadow on him since childhood.He has benefited from the countryside in his growth,also saw the same side of the world.against this background,The "love and hate" of the land stimulated Yan lianke to peel off all the shells,seek the true face of the country.became Yan lianke's consciousness as a writer.In his fictions,the relationships in the rural world are as complex as a web.It is impossible to have a foothold if you have no power in your hand for people who living in rural areas.When Yan lianke in the performance of the "rake columbian world" rural power operation.he always use the image of the villager in the novel.He has created a series of shining village head figures.This paper is to study the image of the village head in Yan lianke's novels.try to investigate Yan lianke's image of the village head.explore the author's attitude toward power in power relations complex novel local world and in constant pursuit of a local real writing as well as to reflect local world human feelings,bear the responsibility of the human nature,and tries to interpret the Yan lianke's loveand hate on the land."I'm the king" is the portraiture of the village head's character image.In the view of power,the image of the village head can be divided into two types: "the ruler" and "the follower".The power in the hands of those in power is divided into four categories:political power,economic power,discourse power,and elder power,regardless of which kind of power they have,the village heads are the emperors of "the world of Balou",and domination of power over the powerless.in order to satisfy "the follower" his lust for power will achieve the goal by hook or by crook,in the process of the right to pursuit of violence factor scores,it will makes the power and violence collude with each other,and catastrophic consequences to the countryside.The village head image of the station power on the high ground in the country who draws by the writer played a decisive role in the novel narrative to the outline,mainly embodied in the village chief characters relations of the manipulator,as well as the village head action is the inner dynamics of the development of the plot in the novel narrative.With his power,village head in the process of getting along with others pressure on each other,realize the other's control and dominate the life and fate of others,show a "the world of Balou" is a powerful domination of the powerless can be unlimited grey world.In terms of plot,the character image of village head also played an important role,the village chief of action is the inner motive power of the plot development,not only because the words of the group action?physical action consistent with the end of the novel to the purpose of,but also because Yan lianke's novels narrative purpose also implement with the help of the character image of village head.With the power in their hands,the village head dominate of power to the villagers,making villagers suffering the natural suffering?survival suffering,suffering for their power is multiple,village heads became the already existing "accomplice" of various kinds of suffering.Although the village chief in Yan lianke's novels of rural society,with great power to manipulate the other life,but at the same time the village chief and manipulated by the invisible hand of "fate",naturally in the novel always give the chiefs set the tragic ending,village heads image is lacking of warm and joy,theirwishes are often ended in failure.The failure of the village leader symbolized the failure of power,and the author's criticism of the deformed power and the tragedy of the writer's tragic fate were reflected.Then,stand in the power pyramid tip village head image stained with a tragic,even with the powerful,they also can't compete with disease?suffering and death,power was eventually eliminated,void,highlight the themes of the novel: the power is meaningless.This also let Yan lianke's love and hate and the emotional interweaving in local gets catharsis.