One's History Of Avant-garde Literature

The most existing studies of Yu Hua focus on the novels he wrote after 1987 the year he was known around the Chinese literature circle. These writings had a measurable impact on aesthetic interests, logics of daily life, and narrations. The other researches pay attention on the works he wrote when he turn to another style in 1990s. There's lack of attentions on Yu Hua's novels from 1983 to 1987, no mention to connect them with his writings after 1987.From the above, I choose Yu Hua, one of the representative authors of Chinese contemporary New-Tide Novels, as my object of study. In this thesis I proceed with a detailed analysis on Yu Hua's novel in his early stage, and with the considering of complicate literature environment in 1980s. Eventually, we can have a general impression of Yu Hua's early period when he started to write. The main purpose of this thesis is to find out why Yu Hua started with a realistic way, but became an avant-garde author whose novels always have a tension with reality, and focus on the revolutionary of forms. We may have an insight into that why New-Tide Novels arose on a large scale in late 1980s in China through this study.In Chapter I , I analyze the basic features of Yu Hua's writing in early days, and pay more attention on the theme of identity consciousness through all his novels in that period. Putting his writing practice in the Chinese social background in early 1980s, we can see the anxiety and dilemma Yu Hua faced then.With the analysis of novels in different period, in Chapter II I focus on how those famous foreign works, including Kawabata Yasunari, Franz Kafka and Antiroman in France, influenced on Yu Hua's writing practice.The third Chapter try to find out that how New-Tide novels resisted against the mainstream of the Chinese literature environment in 1980s, and even more important, on the dependence between two of them, which means New-Tide Novels had its own political intention.