Rural Wasteland

Suffering is a worldwide literary motif,and it is also an important writing object of Cao Naiqian’s novels.Cao Naiqian has his own experience and understanding of suffering.Since he began his novel creation in 1986,he has focused on writing stories about the suffering in the Yanbei countryside.He was recommended by Wang Zengqi and Nobel Prize judge Ma Yueran and attracted the attention of readers at home and abroad.The novel "I can’t think of you in the dark-Wenjiayao Scenery","Plum changing","The Last Village","Buddha’s Solitude" and many other articles have constructed a wasteland-like rural suffering world,which is distinctive in contemporary rural narratives.His personalized character,showing unique literary aesthetic characteristics.Therefore,researching the narrative of suffering in Cao Naiqian’s novels,exploring the aesthetic connotation in the meaning of the wasteland,summarizing his creative style,and discussing the possibility of generating artistic experience is of important theoretical and practical significance for enriching contemporary novel creation research.The first chapter mainly discusses the unique presentation of the narrative of suffering in Cao Naiqian’s novels.Cao Naiqian uses the wasteland to construct his rural imagination and writes the wastelandized countryside.This chapter analyzes the suffering of the living environment and the suffering of human existence.From the wasteland-like natural environment and living environment in the Yanbei countryside,it discusses the suffering of the living environment for the people at the bottom,including the harsh climate,the barren land,and the cramped living space.Exploring the suffering of human existence from the depressing survival scenes and abnormal mental states,and contemplating the numbness,madness,or psychosis of people stagnating in the life of "eating" and "sex".The desolation of material and spirit is the main object displayed in the novel world,and constitutes the wasteland meaning in the narrative of suffering.The second chapter mainly analyzes the aesthetic connotation of the suffering narrative of Cao Naiqian’s novel.The suffering in Cao Naiqian’s writing has multiple aesthetic meanings and forms a unique aesthetic connotation.Behind the rural wasteland are the desolate and helpless living experience,the sad and warm life experience,and the writer’s calm and concealed emotional orientation.The interweaving of the three presents the unique beauty of Cao Naiqian’s novels.The feeling of desolation and helplessness is manifested in Cao Naiqian’s connection of human desires with survival dilemmas,and narrates the eternal tragedy caused by many desires to the destiny of mankind.The life experience of sadness and warmth is manifested in Cao Naiqian’s expression of the suffering of life and the warmth of human nature through family affection,love,and nostalgia in the rural areas of Yanbei.The emotional orientation of calmness and concealment is manifested in Cao Naiqian’s enlightenment and criticism hidden under the writing of daily hardship.The uniqueness and richness of the aesthetic connotation form the strong artistic appeal of the novel.The third chapter mainly discusses the artistic experience and limitations of Cao Naiqian’s narrative of suffering.From the perspective of narrative techniques,Cao Naiqian pays attention to the absorption of language resources such as dialects,vulgar spoken language,and folk songs and polls,and draws on modern Western narrative experiences such as "iceberg theory",ambiguity,and contradictory rhetoric to realize local and Western narratives.Organic integration of experience.As far as artistic experience is concerned,the construction of rural wasteland is an important feature in his narrative of suffering.Cao Naiqian presents a significant wasteland consciousness in his regional writing,forming a personalized experience of rural suffering narration.From the perspective of the limitations presented in his suffering narrative,the lack of changing suffering stories,the cramped creative space,and the hesitant cultural position are issues that need to be reflected in the creation of Cao Naiqian’s novels.