Walking In The Dark

When the modern broke into china, literature as the pioneer broke through the ties and mounted on the modern stage at the turn of the 20th Century. Then we will pay close attention to the self-image that was portrayed by intellectuals in many literary works. We will try to research different self-image from Guo Moruo's, Yu Dafu's and Lu Xun's works. In the differences, we hope to find their conflicting between the tradition and modern, and find their some culture trait that different from traditional scholars, and find their assuming consciousness of destruction and reconstruction from their own space, and find their cognizes of modernist and their expectation to future.There are five sections in the paper.Against the background of enlightenment and constructing individuality, the preface put forward that self-image is the cognizes of modernist by intellectuals in the 1920s'.In the second section, it centers on Guo Moruo's novels and poems in the first ten-year, and seek a process of self-finding in his literary world. Not only did he show an incriminatory, penitential and perceptual 'I', he showed an imperious and rebellious 'I' And then he gave I the group consciousness and made 'I' entrench itself in public.In the third section, it centers on Yu Dafu's autobiographical novels in the first ten-year. The author let his real mind join the modernist that he constructed. And then it records intellectuals' cognizes of modern and a process of modernist's development.In the forth section, it focuses our attention on Lu Xun's novels and prose during this period. In his works,'I' that was born in the evening before the modern always fell into a complex situation. Embarrassment, revenge and wishes maybe become a turning point that 'I' find newborn. In the conscious process of the construction of modernist, the desperation he held is the only vital quality that he obtained.Although intellectuals' efforts didn't bring about some clear point, they showed intellectuals' own obsessions in the first ten-year of modern literature. At the same time, it provided some rare idealistic resources. And it's very important that we can find modern intellectuals' significance and value from it.