.80's Absurd Ideas, Fiction And Western

With the literature and philosophy works of western modernism and postmodernism spreading in China, western absurd thoughts keeps on pervading in China's culture realm. This culture thoughts that radiated into western philosophy, aesthetics, literature and such drew attention from many writers of 1980s. They tasted, perceived, pondered, studied, referred to this absurdity, wrote a lot of novels with unique artistic implication and style. This sort of novels constituted the epitome of the collision of oriental and occidental cultures, which brought a great deal of questions for in-depth discussions.This paper explores this absurdity with five chapters.The first chapter aims at analyzing the reasons of why the western culture thoughts of the twentieth century invited in such a huge impact upon China's literature world of 1980s, as well as presenting an overall recall to western absurd thoughts. First, taking several magazines that introduced western literature as examples, by ascertaining the status of translation, introduction and publication, this chapter analyzes the spreading of western absurd thoughts in China. Second, beginning from their social history and culture backgrounds of Chinese novelists, and from the motives of their own literature writings, this chapter opens out the agog common-points-seeking consciousness in the literature scenes. Last, this chapter presents a brief introduction of the western absurd thoughts in the aspects of causation of origins, philosophy meaning and literary creation.The second chapter mainly addresses that the representation of the historical absurdity of novels of early 1980s lays on the transfiguring and splitting, while this sort of novels happened to have the same view as the social political level's sparkplug to realistic rationality and animadverting on historical absurdity. Within the rational eyesight of writers, those novels revealed the deviation between the intellectuals' pursuit as individual existence and the criterions of the specific history period. However, they only scratched the surface of the absurdity resulted from this deviation in their works for three reasons: firstly, their writings were not established on the absurd Weltanschauung, but reflective figuring to history within the rational scope of criterions; secondly, confined by the professional identity and social status of writers, their understanding to absurdity promptly cleared up in the times and tides; thirdly, this understanding to historical absurdity cleared up as well in the consoling compelled upon them.Chapter three mainly discusses the curtain resonance between the perception of the writers to the acute changing times and western absurdity thoughts, as well as the discrepancies due tocultural stipulations. On the one hand, taking the absurdity they perceived in the individuality-pursuing times as phenomena mixed in their entire spirit world, writers such as Liu Suola put up the absurd complex in their works, and just this complex represented the intercrossing and inter-melting of a various culture spaces. On the other hand, the absurd shown in the works of the middle-aged writers such as Wang Meng represented their sophisticated practical tactics, their optimistic mind of traditional culture, and their spiritual level of taking as wise those not only perceiving and recognizing the absurd but also treating it with a detached attitude.Taking as examples the avant-garde writers such as Ma Yuan, Hong Feng, Ge Fei, Yu Hua and Sun Ganlu, chapter four discusses the absurd philosophy contained in the avant-garde novels, the deviation of the writers' manner of self existence from the absurd, as well as their fleeing pose while facing the absurd. On one side, the avant-garde novelists intended to achieve philosophical breakthrough by the breakthrough in the forms of their works, while the manners of how human-beings dwell in this world, how they understand this world and how they deal with this world had apparent traces of expatiating western contemporary philosophy. On the ot...