Study Of Wang Anyi’s Novel Anonymity

Anonymity is another novel written by Wang Anyi.It mainly tells the story of a"old man" from Shanghai being kidnapped and brought to a wild land far away from Shanghai to survive,and gradually returning to human civilization.The theme of Anonymity is very rich.First of all,it has written Shanghai culture.Shanghai has always been the spiritual territory of Wang Anyi’s novel creation.Naturally,Anonymity is no exception,although in this novel,Wang Anyi sets the main story venue in a place far away from Shanghai.However,the image of Shanghai always runs through the whole novel.For the writing of Shanghai culture,there are both Shanghai and the Shanghailanders who have gradually lost their status as masters through the description of the forests and other places.Secondly,Wang Anyi also expresses his thoughts on the evolution process of human civilization in this novel.The development of human beings always goes from high to low,but in.this novel,Wang Anyi arranges for the protagonist to carry out "degeneration" and "secondary evolution",and every process and stage of the evolution of the protagonist is referenced by the little people around him,and through the process of the protagonist’s "secondary evolution",he realizes that he wants to explore from civilization to wildness,what is the purpose.Thirdly,Wang Anyi’s Anonymity also embodies a strong sense of root-seeking.There are not only the roots of the protagonists who have been kidnapped to the forest,but also the strangers who appear in the forest and other places around the protagonist.Looking for the roots,there are more authors who are looking for and thinking about the ancient proposition of "Who am I?Where do I come from?Where do I go?" and thus sublimate to understand and think about the development of the entire human race and the entire civilization.The artistic features embodied in the novel Anonymity are also very special.The novel uses a lot of metaphors,the most important of which is a metaphor about naming metaphors and words.The author gives a variety of special connotations to these large and small things,and is attracting readers to think about their own way of life and reflect on the entire human civilization.In addition,the Anonymity narrative method is also very special.There are two parallel clues in this novel.One is the clue that the protagonist is brought into the forest to survive,and the other is the protagonist’s family in Shanghai looking for his clues.At the same time,there are two narrative spaces,one is the wild land where the protagonist was thrown in,and the other is the hometown of the protagonist,Shanghai.At the same time,the narrative language of this novel has changed compared with Wang Anyi’s previous works.There are more dialogues and argumentative language in the novel.Anonymity has important literary value as the latest novel of Wang Anyi.In this novel,Wang Anyi shows a different Shanghai from her other novels through geographical inference.To a certain extent,it is not only the inheritance and development of her previous root-seeking consciousness,but also the ancient proposition of "Who am I?" The continuation and exploration is also a reflection and search for human civilization and the way people live.