Pioneer Narrative

Pioneer thought about 1985 was caused under special time background and historical condition. It had much connect with political and economical background in 1980s. Politics democratic and economical progress caused by reformation and open politics accelerated exchange between Chinese culture and western culture, which made western literature into the sight of Chinese writer with a large scale in short time. Secondly, pioneer thought was linked with subjective effort of writer. The creation in novel by Ma yuan, Yu hua etc. made the trend of community outstanding, and came into a loose literatural school with similar style. In all, the development of Pioneer novel had three stage, childish, mature, declination. Every stage had its specialty. The first stage was born about 1985, Ma yuan , Hong feng was the representative. In the stage, pioneer novel came into being just now and made initial form exploration. The second stage was born about 1987. Yu hua, su tong, Ge fei ect. Were the representatives? They went on exploration on form, deepened the experiment in words, which showed new value trend gradually. In the stage, Pioneer novel reached the most height as possible and a large number of representative works came out. The third stage was born about 1989. The style of the pioneer novel writers changed obviously, from radical difference from the popular to concession with them. A lot of earlier pioneer novel writers came closely to TV and movie, and some returned to realism. The high-spirited combat a view, Pioneer had died out. Did pioneer died out really? I think it did not. Do you know other writers did not go on exploration on this road, especially the writers out of our sight, even if the splendid situation of pioneer had not come again? So my essay did not support the view that the pioneer had died.Every literature form or style could not exist without condition, on which using for reference from oversea or inheriting from tradition would come out obviously. So were the pioneer novels. We could see not only the shadow of Franz Kafka , William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquezect., but also strong existence of Jorge Luis Borges and New Novel School. Pioneer novel absorbed western nutrition, which was a fact in deed. A lot of researchers neglected its native nature. Few people noticed it had connection with Chinese literature because the spirit trend of post-modernism in pioneer narration. But, in fact, if we look for the native nature ofpioneer we could find the nature was stressed sedulously. There was paradox in pioneer novel, on one hand, it wanted to overturn the realism tradition, put its standard aside, on the other hand, it echoed and coincide to the Chinese classical literature that was exist long long ago. Narrative skill absorbed from the west was found in Chinese classical literature. The condition proved a fact in pioneer that it could not change into western post-modernism and became a branch of western literature, and it. could not cut the connection with the tradition because of the pioneers' ignoration to the tradition. Absorption from oversea or tradition was existed objectively. It is unfair to emphasis one side only.The skill about time was a avoidable item in pioneer novel, "time" was not a existence in reality but a narrative means. Its many kinds form broke the single uniform impression in people' s mind. It came out with many kinds , such as division, repetition! stop, recycling, deformation, dislocate ect. Pioneer novel was good at using " false time " to construct novel, that is to say, every change of time must not cause the development of story, and so did the conversation. Time was not a reference of world activity. Function time surpassed the meaning in traditional novel. It could create atmosphere, make constructure, labyrinth, met narratives o Story time and narrative time in pioneer novel is conversable to the traditional ones. Narrative time was put the most height, and received more attention than story time.If the form of pioneer novel was peel, the spirit value and seeking kernel. The core of pioneer novel was irrationalism, immoralism, non-Essentialism non-foundationalism etc. As tool to antitradition, these theories had strong effectiveness. Pioneer writers used irrationalism to resist rationalism, immoralism to resist moralism, themeless or multitheme to resist theme, insignificance to overturn significance. After understanding these, you could understand all kinds of game nature, advanced nature of of pioneer novel narratition was not a game, but a means to anti-tradition. If you paid more attention to the means and gave up their real purpose, your researching in pioneer novel would stay on one-side.Words creation in pioneer novel was a valuable exploration. These words were full of energy and could stimulate the people' s imagination. They were rich, marvelous, multitheme, and flexible. Take comparison for example, it including simile, metaphor showed higher creation in pioneer novels than in realism ones. The real purpose of word change (undefined word, antilogy word etc.) was not only forcreation, but also wanted to bring up suspect in most degree to the reasonability of reason world. When we evaluate the words in pioneer novel, we could not negate completely because of its obscurity and regarded it profound because of unintelligibility. We could not put all the pioneer writers' words on the evaluation that their words enriched the expression and could not pay no attention to their creation.Pioneer novel was not a literature reformation perfectly, on the contrary, Its shorting was less than its advantage. Its imitation, narcissism, repetition, difference from the mass, routines ect. Were very serious. Sometime, reader could find resemble sentence and narrative style. This condition caused pioneer into awkward situation that reader refused to accept it. We should not avoid the shorting, but we could not deny the effort that the pioneer school paid on creation. In fact, pioneer changed not only the people' s realization to novel, but also the demand of novel.Focus of pioneer novel was not concrete person, but marginal theme, such as history time, fate, society, consciousness ect. A lot of researchers paid more attention to pioneer writers' reformation on form, so they included form was the pioneer' real interest. They also deny the pioneer' participation in reality. There was reasonable part in criticism. However, critic should not take social value\reality means as standard. They should realize the good effect on inspiration in mind. The greatest value of pioneer school was not its reality but its ideal. Although pioneer thought had. died away gradually, the pioneer spirit did not die out. Even if ti could not keep powerful situation, it could not be forget and give up, because it was spirit continuity. Just as there is rationalism there is irrationalism, there is non-pioneer there is pioneer.Although pioneer thought in 1980s or 1990s had passed away, its effection was very deep. The later literature history would give it a fair evaluation about its achievements and errors. Now, our conclusion, The task that pioneer novel had complete was its bringing up other possibility and way to create new thought in tradition world. This is the whole means.