The 1990s Literature And Contemporary Life

What is the ideal, stable, and proper relationship between literature and real life? This question is always the focus and is discussed. Chen Xiao-ming describes 90s' literature like the following, "Now, the relation between literature and reality is never more straight and close while shadowy and ostensible". It is the complexity that 90s' literature is getting more involved to the reality, while it is getting farther. Why can't the literature intervene in the real life? Not only because we live in such a complex and ambiguous times, and the great change of the society and the life has extended imagination and knowledge from the experience of 80's, so the old literature rules are no longer valid but also because of the capability of the litterateur. In the introduction part, I analyze the reason why 90's literature can't intervene into the real life and present that the particular aesthetics taste is the only way by which the literature can intervene into the reality.In the first chapter, I talk about the narration of 90s' novels. As the whole, 90s' novels are realistic, but the over simple result in the copy of the reality. We can find that the narration of 90s' novels is no longer the traditional style, although it is apparently seem same to the traditional realism. The narration of 90s' novels uses the "raw" life recording, and discard the typical figuring, dramatic scenario. The main difference is the character depiction and the narration attitude. In this chapter, the main concepts of narration of 90s' novels, "raw life recording" and "detail depicting", are discussed to explain the dominating reason which result in the 90s' narration style. And I present the relationship between the narration of 90s' novel and the reality culture structure.In the second chapter, we discuss the everyday life composition. In the 90s, with the emerging of the secularization process and the consumptive tide, "everyday life" has been take as the most important part of the life, the personal everyday life experience began to come into the literature composition. It is also used to clear up the magnificent narration. In 90s' literature, everyday life narration seems founding the narration logic in an independent way, say, open and raw, but as to the reality and practice, the everyday composition is far from satisfying. In the first part we mainly discussed how to understand and explain the mundane happiness. It is declared that although the 90s' literature timely snapshot the various scenarios while the people is pursuing the mundane happiness, for some reason it does not accumulate the energy to fight against the popular tide, it excite more imagination for the mundane happiness. In the second part, I discussed how the 90s' literature deal with the change of the person's sensibility, ethic, value. Some writer's novels are discussed, including Zhang Xin, Tang Ying, Chen Dan-yan etc. In this part, "unconventional" composition emerging at the end of 90s is also discussed. In the third part, the discuss begin with the "mediocrity" and "fastidium" of 90s' literature, and point out the non-trivial spirit problem.The third chapter discuss the "hardship" and "tribulation", analyzing how the 90s' literature impact the reality. From the middle of 90s, some writers pay attention to the rapid changing and flinty reality. They worry about the difficulties of the factory development, sympathize and commiserate the tribulation of rough scuff, try to respond to the reality with doubt, worry, and resentfulness and begin an literature "impact" to the reality. Nevertheless, because the lack of mentality strength and spirit resource, they are not able to inspect and ponder the problem of reality deeper. And because of the leanness of imagination and the excessively complex and unpredictable reality, the 90s' literature is impotent when intervene the reality which is the main limitation of the 90s' literature respond to the reality. The first part discuss the "flinty" actuality that "realism shock wave" novels present, how to respond and resol...