"A Writer Needs A Sensitive Nose" - A Study On The Smell Narrative In Mo Yan's Novel

In the world of Mo Yan’s novels,smell is a remarkable and unique existence.Smell can not only bring feelings,but also an important way for Mo Yan to tell stories.Odor plays an important role in the narration of Mo Yan’s novels.The study of odor from the perspective of narratology breaks through the original constraints of studying odor from the aspects of psychology,physiology and spirit.It not only highlights Mo Yan’s unique literary thought and creation style,but also reflects the self-transcendence and development of Mo Yan’s creation practice,and has great significance for the contemporary narrative research of Mo Yan’s novels.Smell,as a prominent characteristic of Mo Yan’s novels,not only has the connotation of the smell smelled by the nose,but also is closely related to the unique atmosphere created by the writer’s story selection,narrative tone and narrative form,as well as the reflection of the writer’s literary creation concept.Odor often highlights its systematic and regular characteristics in the comparison of "bad feeling" and "pleasure",while "disgust" and "pleasure" form a feeling gap within the text,generating a powerful narrative tension in the ups and downs of readers’ reading psychology.Mo Yan endows odor with narrative characteristics and becomes a narrative form of novels.It plays a narrative role by shaping characters,promoting plot development and delaying narrative rhythm,which practices odor narration as a literary creation method and also brings new possibilities and development directions for literary creation.At the same time,Mo Yan’s novels also create personalized,full of desire and can bring the memory of the smell and narrative feeling,highlighting the unique value of odor narration for Mo Yan’s novels.Odor in Mo Yan’s novels is closely related to the four stages of plot beginning,development,climax and ending,forming narrative modes of odor in each stage respectively."Each performs its own duties" plays different narrative roles.Mo Yan,on the other hand,grasps the complicated and diversified smells,and reveals the contradictions and deep meanings hidden in the text through the combination of realistic and fictional artistic expression,highlighting the writer’s view of creation and aesthetics.However,odor narration is not only a way of narration in Mo Yan’s novels,but also reflects Mo Yan’s artistic creation,among which realistic experience,realistic orientation and aesthetic characteristics are important elements."Reality orientation" means that Mo Yan seeks his hometown through smell,but he is not limited to reproducing the smell of reality.Instead,he chooses to appropriately aestheticize,dreamize and emotionalize the smell of his hometown to build a literary kingdom of "Northeast Gaomi Township" to complete the mission of rebuilding his hometown,which reflects the new development path of smell from inside the text to outside the text.At the same time,the aesthetic conception of romance and violence created by odor creates a picture of the coexistence of light and darkness,justice and evil,beauty and suffering in the field of literature and art aesthetics,which makes readers feel as if they are there,and enhances readers’ realistic experience while highlighting Mo Yan’s aesthetic consciousness and pursuit.Mo Yan endows odor with narrative characteristics in his literary works.This literary creation method of involving odor in narration is the practice of his literary works filled with the feeling of life,which reflects Mo Yan’s consistent creation concept.The rich and complex odors in Mo Yan’s novels provide rich materials for the academic research based on narratology,and systematically discuss the connotation,mode,function and artistic creation of odor narration in Mo Yan’s novels from the theoretical level.This study promotes the study of the narratology of understanding and reading Mo Yan,expands the research scope of contemporary Mo Yan’s novels,and has an important influence on readers’ better understanding,interpretation and appreciation of Mo Yan’s works.At the same time,it highlights Mo Yan’s important contribution to the development of contemporary literature.