The Irony Art In Yan Lianke's Novels

Yan Lianke is an extremely important writer in the history of Chinese contemporary literature.Since the 1990 s,his novels have received critical attention.For more than 30 years,critics have used different methods of criticism to study and interpret Yan Lianke's novels from different angles and have gained a lot of profound understanding.This article will take irony as a clue to discuss Yan Lianke's novels,find out the reasons for the formation of irony consciousness,and dig out the irony form,intention and emotion in his novels.Firstly,it examines the origin of Yan Lianke and irony,irony can appear in novels because of the enlightenment of Chinese and foreign literature,the influence of current social and cultural environment,and the change and maturity of Yan Lianke's literary concept.Secondly,it analyzes the irony strategy in novels from the perspectives of verbal irony,narrative irony and unintentional irony.The appearance of exaggerated statement,restrained statement,paradox discourse,irony,irony in his novels,the comprehensive application of viewpoint irony,parody irony,structural irony,image irony and voice irony,as well as the irony situation of backfiring and the contrast between inside and outside characters.Yan Lianke's novels are rich and varied in ironic narrative techniques.His verbal irony is dominated by exaggerated statements,restrained statements and teasing words,presenting a kind,simple,gentle and tranquil language style.The narrative irony is typified by parody irony and structural irony.Compared with verbal irony and narrative irony,unintentional irony reveals the theme of the work more profoundly,of which allegorical unintentional irony is more prominent.Thirdly,it analyzes the irony intention of the novel from the aspects of social reality theme and existence theme,and finds out Yan Lianke has a strong sense of realistic care and life care.Fourthly,it focuses on the emotional reactions caused by ironic works on the part of the ironic interpreter,and finds that his novel irony has played a good role in emphasizing the key points,overturning stereotypes,conveying pain and exposing the cognitive differences of the group.Starting from the writer's writing background and the phenomenon level,the paper analyzes the irony form of Yan Lianke's novels,extends to excavate the irony intention contained in them,and finally observes the artistic effect of the novels in connection with readers' emotional reactions,so as to have a clearer and comprehensive understanding of Yan Lianke's novels' irony,thereby enriching Yan Lianke's novels' research and the irony research of Chinese novels in the new period.