On The Joking Implication Of Liu Zhenyun’s Novels

Liu Zhenyun’s novels are highly joking In his works,he suspends the traditional moral judgments and presents the obscured truths of life from a folk standpoint,based on people’s real-life experiences,and in the vulgarization of the sublime.This joking and rebellious spirit of literary creation has given his works a highly subversive and comic tendency.The complex and radical social reality and multiple value conflicts prompt Liu Zhenyun to adjust his discursive stance and seek a more "personal writing" narrative position.Liu Zhenyun turned to the folklore,extracted creative experiences from the rural life of the past,and examined the world from a metaphysical perspective through folk thinking and cultural awareness.At the same time,he inherits China’s cultural tradition of laughter and expresses his true perception of the world in his joking aesthetic thinking.Based on people’s daily experiences,Liu Zhenyun shows the truth of existence,which is obscured by traditional perceptions,in folkized historical interpretations,fragmented ethical relationships,and individual pursuits dissolved by secular life.Liu Zhenyun adopts a subversive and joking narrative form,attempting to reveal the invisible truth under the tangible life in the repeatedly winding narrative logic,the upside-down farcical plot,the despised human and object imagery,and the coarse and comical language of the coexistence of all voices.Liu Zhenyun explores the obscured truths of existence in the aesthetic freedom of jocularity,and seeks the truths of daily life in the discursive narrative thinking.However,it is undeniable that Liu Zhenyun’s joking posture,which relies too much on the folk position,inevitably leads him to the extreme of deconstruction,and he lacks the passion for constructing life after penetrating the gray truth of life.At the same time,his catering to popular aesthetics also makes his joking narratives show an obvious tendency to be kitschy,which is a form of novelty and ridiculousness and weakens the ideological depth of the text.