On Jia Pingwa's Urban Novels

Jia Pingwa is a famous writer in contemporary era.In addition to his a series of novels about Shangzhou,he also created a large number of urban novels.These urban novels because so rich and profound ideological content and unique narrative art that exerting a wide influence in the contemporary literary forum,and arousing a general concern in scholars.This paper mainly interprets and analyses Jia Pingwa's urban novels from three aspects:landscapes,characters and themes,finally,it discusses the reasons for Jia Pingwa's urban novels.There are a large number of geographical landscapes in Jia Pingwa's urban novels.It includes natural landscapes,for examples,weather conditions,animals and plants,as well as cultural landscapes,such as urban villages,traditional buildings and modern buildings.The natural landscapes description not only play important role on displaying the plots and the characters,but also have artistic function in metaphor and symbolizing fate of the characters.At the same time,those humanistic landscapes have some aesthetic values: influencing the narrative rhythm of the novels,increasing the regional color and historical sense of the novels,and expressing the author's cultural attitude.Jia Pingwa's urban novels depict many characters,the most prominent of whose are the rural image and urban literati image.Rural migrant workers are anxious and miserable,but still hopefully in city life.These characters help readers to understand the development trend of society and the complexity of human nature.The urbanites,they are cultural,distress and humor.Which showing Jia Pingwa's autobiographical.Further,it made characters with soul depth.Jia Pingwa's urban novels possess multitudinous themes.There are two themes standing out.Firstly,it reflected many social problems,for instances,social injustice,privilege,falsification,seeking fame and wealth,as well as celebrity worship,etc.meanwhile.It alsoreflexed the rural and peasant destiny under the background of urbanization.Those documentary narration works reflected Jia Pingwa's strong sense of social responsibility.Second,the theme about human alienation,a general social phenomenon,through human alienation into animals,ghosts and so on,Jia Pingwa's urban novels reveal profoundly the general social phenomena of human alienation under the external social environment and their own desires,thus writer describes the characters in-depth,and he also criticizes the social reality of person dominated by power,money and so on.The creative reasons for Jia Pingwa's urban novel can be roughly divided into external factors and internal factors.First of all,his works were influenced by the external social life of the times,contemporary literary trends and tradition of the previous generation.Secondly,Jia Pingwa's urban life experiences,feelings and thinking about the city,as well as his unique literary concept,which all are an important component of his urban novels.Although existing in shortcomings,Jia Pingwa's urban novels have made great achievements?It expending the author field of his literature novels,furthermore,and enriching the achievements of contemporary Chinese urban novels.