On Li Er’s Novel Creation

Li Er,a contemporary writer,is well known for his writing on the theme of intellectuals.In his creation of more than 30 years,he examines history,pays attention to reality and focuses on human nature with strong humanistic spirit and realistic feelings.Its historical narrative reconstructs the truth of history from the perspective of individual and reality,and provides a new discourse power for small history;Its female narration,from the male perspective,reveals the real living situation and self-spiritual world of women since the new era;Its intellectual narrative depicts the inheritance and rupture of intellectuals from generation to generation,and shows the fate and spiritual predicament of intellectuals in different times.This paper takes Li Er’s novels as the research object,and tries to make a comprehensive and objective review of his creation in a broader perspective.The full text includes the introduction,the main body,the conclusion three major parts,the main body divides three chapters to launch the elaboration.The first chapter is historical narrative.It mainly enters Li Er’s novel world from reality and history and individual and history.In Huaqiang,Forgetting and Guizi Entering Village,Li Er writes the history in the personal memory of the historical witnesses from different perspectives,and interprets another historical truth for us.At the same time,Li Er also uses history to deduce the relationship between characters in reality and explains the truth of reality in the name of history.In addition,Li Er’s novels also pay great attention to highlighting the individual in history,and how individual is dispelled in history.Therefore,Li Er tried to find the existence of individuals in the grand history,and then explained the relationship between individuals and history.The second chapter is female narrative.In Li Er’s novels,we can peep into the female characters’ realistic survival predicament,as well as their response to the plight.One is the women standing behind the intellectuals,who should have a better life,but are confined to the emotional world of men and lose themselves at last;Another is transforming rural female whose subject consciousness begins to awaken in these difficulties hoping to get rid of the role localization which is subordinate to man looking for one’s own new living space.The third chapter is intellectual narrative.In Li Er’s works,there are three generations of intellectuals,old,middle and young.The generation intellectuals who can be called spiritual backbone show the feelings of home and country and convey spiritual strength;The Mesozoic intellectuals pursued the unity of knowing and doing,but had to withstand the tearing of the temptation of ethics and morality and reality;Under the control of pluralistic values,the intellectuals of the later generation are running freely.Every generation of intellectuals has its own mission of the times,but at the same time they continue to inherit the spiritual blood of modern literati.To sum up,by combing Li Er’s novel creation,we summarize its ideological theme and narrative characteristics,and analyze the living conditions,destiny development and personality characteristics of the characters in different historical backgrounds in different periods.Hope to be able to close to the main intention of Li Er’s novel creation and experience characteristics,summed up the useful experience of its literary creation,and then explore the unique literary value of Li Er’s novel creation.