| Han Shaogong is one of the most important contemporary writers.He always examines personal life experience and historical memory with a skeptical and alert attitude,and constantly updates his own creative ideas.The educated youth movement has a deep imprint on Han Shao-gong’s memory,which makes him render a strong "idealist" color all his life,Han Shaogong’s rustic life influenced and determined his simple and plain values.Han Shaogong cherishes the experience of educated youth very much,therefore,Educated youth writing runs through his creative process and has undergone several changes,and with the change of the context of The Times,presents a different face.From the 1990 s to the present,Han Shaogong successively wrote novels Ma qiao Dictionary,Hint,Book of the Day and Night and Modification Process.In this new series of novels about the life of educated youth,he deeply reflected on the revolutionary history and showed a distinct skeptical spirit.His creation idea is reflected in the way of writing the novel,which is to get rid of the previously solidified educated youth narrative and deconstruct the grand narrative.To be specific,it starts from three aspects: narration of daily life,distancing oneself from the main theme and decentralization.At the same time,his series of novels also re-created a group of obviously flawed,"alternative" educated youth image: such as the tide of The Times in the captive,fanatical democracy fighters,life players and sober reflection.Through the depiction of the new educated youth,Han Shaogong not only restores the complex nature of human nature,but also pushes the understanding and reflection of the educated youth movement to a new height and depth.Han Shaogong’s series of works not only rewrote the history of educated youth,but also showed the destiny of educated youth in the 1990 s after the social transformation.Starting from his real life experience,he re-examined the memory of educated youth in the modern context,and made the dialogue between history and the present in a broader vision,which made his writing of educated youth more profound.The spiritual dilemma and belief crisis of educated youth in the era of market economy revealed by his works are not only the crisis of educated youth,but also the fundamental and ultimate problem that all intellectuals have to face in the social transformation of China.As a folk intellectual with a critical vision of modernity,Han Shaogong shows a high degree of vigilance against and rejection of consumption culture,indulgence culture and kitsch culture in his creation.He tried to draw valuable spiritual nutrients from educated youth and local life,hoping to find a good way to fight against the marketization and vulgarization of modern society.In this sense,Han Shaogong’s persistent watch and in-depth search for the memory of educated youth manifest his responsibility as an intellectual and sincere humanistic care.Han Shaogong’s writing of educated youth after 1990 s has important value in the literature history of educated youth,provides new possibilities for educated youth to write,and has irreplaceable significance for breaking through the previous rigid mainstream writing mode of educated youth. |
