The New Theory Of Jorge Luis Borges And Chinese Novels In New Time

Jorge Luis Borges, the so called "writer of the writers", is a worldwide famous literature master, philosophic poet and literature theoretician. In the history of the implantation of western literature by Chinese new literature, Borges is someone can never be avoided. Borges, through the wide range, profound philosophic thinking and creative expression method of his work, attracts many Chinese writers to freely think about the conquer of time, thinking about destiny and the building of literature expression. The revolution brought by Borges almost influenced the whole world of Chinese new literature. This influences can be found in the works of many pioneer writers and some writers of new the generation. Concretely speaking, Borges’s influences on the Chinese new literature has mainly been with respect to the reformation of literature concepts, styles, sense of time and narrative methods. This article is not to prove the existence of such an influence, rather, this article is to talk about the incorporation and acceptance of the Chinese new literature of Borges’s heritage, and also the development of the Chinese new literature thereafter. Besides, this article points out the differences between the Chinese new literature and Borges and the deficiencies of the Chinese new literature.In researching Borges’s influences on the Chinese new literature, especially some pioneer writers and some writers of the new generation, this article mainly adopts the influence research method of the comparative literature. It also gives some attention to the parallel method. Specifically speaking, this article does not simply compare Borges with certain Chinese writers. Rather, it extract Borges’s thoughts, concepts, time sense, narrative skills and styles, and then compare Borges with certain Chinese writers in all these aspects. This article also compare the methods, with which different Chinese writers treat outside influences.The dissertation is consist of three main parts:introduction, main body, conclusion, which can be divided into five chapters.The introduction summarizes the unsurpassable status and magnificent influences of Borges on the Chinese new literature, as well as the "Borges fever" at that time.The first chapter of the main body introduces the translation, dissemination and acceptance of Borges during the 1980s, and concludes the general situation of the research upon Borges, and provides the grounds and meaning of the comparable research.The second, third, and fourth chapters of the main body analyses the influences of Borges’s works upon Chinese new literature.The second chapter departs from the revolution of the literature concepts. Borges thinks that literature is "serious game" and the "indication of dreams", he is against the opinion that literature is subordinated to "the theory of reflection" and "organum’ escapes from the traditional realism of literature, extends the subjects and styles of writing. This chapter abstracts out "destiny" and "reality" from the "theory of game" and "the theory of dream", analyses Borges’s influences upon the revolution of Chinese new literature.The third chapter starts from the time concept:Borges’s advocate of subjective time, circulate time and reversible time promotes the mysterious sense existing in his works. Under his influences, the accurate grasp of the psychological time by Chinese pioneer writers makes their literal creation distinguishable from what happened before.The fourth chapter starts from the reformation of narrative method:Borges’s application of explosive narration, including postmodern narrative methods such as: exposure -meta-fiction、narrative absence、intertextuality etc., has a huge influence on the literal creation of Chinese pioneer writers, as well as the writing of some New-Generation Writers.The conclusion of the dissertation starts from the fact that Borges has a undeniable influence on the Chinese new age fictions, talks about the possibility for the new age literature to keep its racial identity while absorbing the beneficial aspects of foreign literature, and goes further to the subject about how Chinese literature could exhibits its special characteristics and contribute to the literature of the whole world, in the process of its becoming a part of the world.