Study On Bai Xianyong's Homosexual Novel

As a homosexual writer, Baixianyong had the most deep experience and feeling in the third sex world which granted him the authority of expressing the unique emotional characteristic of that sexuality . His depressed childhood experience and different sex orientation, which maybe considered as the resource and motivation of his writing, greatly helped him to form his special language style and delicate description . In 1977, Baixianyong's novel was published in a serial form. This novel was not only a continuation of his early fictions that mainly dealt with homosexuality ,but also a breakthrough of his writing style. told us the story of a gay group in Taibei. In this dark world, the individuality and desire of the gays were deprived, and their social status was pushed to the edge of male world. They shared the common characteristic of being hysteria ,depressed, anxious, nervous, excited, and insane,, which resulted in "multiple personality" and unstableness in emotion that were always accompanied by the behavior of suicide and self torture. While frantically struggling and fighting with each other for sexual possessing , they showed indifference to eternal and responsible relationship. And their insane group actions were very contradictory to their individual behaviors. In the text, the father, who was always the symbol of authority, had a kind of delicate relationship with his rebellious son. After having gone through so much struggling and searching , the reader could finally see a little bright light in the end of the novel which symbolized the expectation of a better paternity. 《Tea for Two》 was Baixianyong's recent gay novel. In this novel, he continued his writing style which was always related, and ascribed to his consciousness of "caring all the living being ". He developed the sadness and helplessness of homosexual people to the extent of "being incurable", and discovered the underlying reason why the homosexual world was cursed . And the reader might show more understanding and sympathy for these people.