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On The Writing Of Desire In Chen Xiwo’s Novels

Posted on:2023-12-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P X ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2555306938458364Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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This topic takes Chen Xiwo’s desire writing as the starting point,through sorting out the background of desire writing,interprets the desire writing in Chen Xiwo’s novels by classification,deeply discusses the Literary Ethics behind Chen Xiwo’s desire writing,analyzes the artistic presentation of Chen Xiwo’s desire writing,and finally explains that Chen Xiwo challenges the specific cultural order to reflect its unique era value and vanguard significance.Throughout the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature,from the reconstruction of social order during the May 4th movement to the questioning of human existence in the new century,the satisfaction of desire in the writing of desire has exceeded the constraints of reality,pointing to some of people’s living ideals.Writers "give home to the soul and order to the society" through the inevitable task of desire,which is the same as the "trial of desire" implied in Chen Xiwo’s works.Chen Xiwo created a unique world of desire in his novels.He wrote about the deterioration of the spiritual ecology of modern urban people in the pursuit of material desire.Material desire has become an expression of Chen Xiwo’s self confirmation and resistance to the existing social order;The desire for power,sex and family affection in his works are connected together in an unconscious way,forming a hidden power field,which has certain reference significance for us to examine the daily ethical order in an unfamiliar but brand-new way;In the desire for life,he uprooted the individual from the daily order through sexual alienation,and let the individual complete the liberation and redemption of the soul in the lust.Chen Xiwo’s desire writing is not only the joys and sorrows of daily life space,but also the process of self-improvement and Transcendence of urban people.It is a description with ethical meaning.In personal ethics,the characters in his novels always fall into the dilemma of personal ethics in the abyss of desire,and confirm the survival value of the subject in destruction or concealment;In family ethics,Chen Xiwo opened the coat of marriage ethics,family ethics and ethical taboos,thus breaking up the traditional Chinese ethical and moral cultural concepts,and showing the literary position of the ethical and spiritual crisis that human society should face together;In social ethics,Chen Xiwo explained the importance of reconstructing the social universal ethical and moral emotion that goes beyond consumption symbols and faces all citizens through the anatomy of consumption symbols.Chen Xiwo uses the narrative strategy of subversion and resistance to reality to transcend morality and ethics,maintain the confrontation between desire and ethics,and realize his spiritual purity of the world.In addition,the desires of men and women in his novels form Gender Opposition,presenting the ambiguity of female images and the dilemma of male subject consciousness in the context of consumption.Chen Xiwo explosively destroyed all traditional ethics in China,deconstructed the traditional ethics with a kind of paradoxical moral tension,and eliminated the hypocrisy of Chinese traditional culture by fighting against the extreme evil personal freedom desire,and put forward a pioneer proposition of rebuilding the universal moral values that adapt to the consumer society in the new era.The background of personal life experience and the nourishment and stimulation of eastern and Western literature have formed Chen Xiwo’s Literary Tension of restraining and indulging desire.Between the tension of indulging desire and restraining desire,Chen Xiwo has formed his own unique avantgarde desire writing art,and his desire writing has provided new experience for the development of avantgarde literature.In this process,Chen Xiwo’s extreme focus on mining has made him unique and formed his own unique artistic space narration,which has also created the fetter of his desire to write.While describing the life experience he is interested in,only by reflecting and criticizing his own living state from a higher angle can he obtain greater artistic progress and go further to the spiritual process.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chen Xiwo, Desire writing, Literary Ethics, pioneering
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