The Research Of Can Xue's New Experimental Novels

Can Xue's new experimental novels are similar to the avant-garde novels in the middle of the 1980s.But it's different from the avant-garde novels' narrative revolution,such as the narrative techniques and language forms of the novels.The narrative itself is an aesthetic object in the avant-garde novels.The main theme of the new experimental novels is the soul of self analysis and dart.It tells dark,mysterious mind story,dispel the boundaries of existing beauty and ugliness,in contrast to self-spiritual self-soul.Its highest goal is enhance the human nature and save itself,The characters in the novels are positive,away from the decadent and nothingness,and not reflect the times nightmare and the abnormal personality.It pays attention to the writer's initiative and subjectivity,and expects the readers to participate and complete;but it does not pay attention to the structure of the work,but also does not care about the appearance of the world's restrictions and constraints.As to writing techniques,"automatic writing" is the unique method of Can Xue's literature.This is a kind of irrational expression under the control of deep rational thoughts.On the surface,the language is absurd,the construction is scattered and the emotions are indifferent.However,in essence,it has rigorous logic and ebullient feelings.In the sight of general readers,this is a process of looking for spiritual breakout and individual activity by punishing his own body and abominating the material world.But for the authors,the impulsion produced by everlasting and inexhaustible writing is the show of motivating force.As to characteristics,in terms of narrative structure and expressive ways of the new experimental novel in the early period,the traditional narration is payed little attention to and the superficial coherent plots are scarce.The formation of "Automatic writing" make an unique aesthetic mechanism of Can Xue's novels.It seems to be the wrestle and twist between Nous and Logos,the stronger Nous' explosive power is,the fiercer Logos' control force and spiritual division are.And this division can make human beings gain the supreme pleasure from the infinite sense of pain,so that they can realize the favor of life and the propose of love.Can Xue has insisted the new experimental novel writing for over thirty years,but the main features of the novel are not changed.That characters in the novel are on the bottom in writer's imagine world rather than in the secular world,highlighting small figures of life tension and the original momentum;in the narrative structure,it does not pay attention to traditional narrative,lacking of surface coherent plot and specific sense of the event,not carving typical character in the typical environment.With the story,beyond the traditional novel's realistic and story,it appears fracture of the inner self and soul conflict,deviating from the art from the common sense of life,just highlighting the characters' life attitude and spiritual activities,which are high spirited,positive and excite,in order to show the depth and breadth of the darkness in soul.With the language,it's not seek the pursuit of forms and skills and narrative trap,not using the concepted,considerated language,but it prefers metaphor,symbol,fable,dream language,which formed a text lacking of secular values.The style of Can Xue's new experimental novels is not consistent.There are roughly two phases,that is,1980s for the early period,from 1990 to now for the later period.Words in the early period present a state of non-rationality with conniption and repetition.However,in the later period,words and contents tend to be cold and concise.And imagery characteristics in the early period are displaced by event characteristics in the later period.Novels in the early period can be said to be a dump with ugly images,blurred constructions and neurotic figures.In the later period,although her novels are still filled with absurdity,non-rationality and spirit-oriented,words are concise,language is natural,images are clear and pictures are clean.The protagonist of the early novels is disorder,nausea,gloomy,partial to the dark soul to dig the real humanity.The wretched,abnormal image of the early novels faded,but increased strange,mysterious spirit.The early novels put emphasis on ugly image and dirty scene,tracing on heavy ideological discourse.While the later put emphasis on clean image and fresh picture,showing distinctive personality,poetic features and philosophical implication.That contributes to the transforming of nightmare novel realm in the early period to dreamlike one in later period.Western classical literature and modernist literature are the main origins of Can Xue's new experimental novels,and the mysterious lands of Chinese traditional culture and the Wu-Chu culture of Hunan Province are the native resources of its development.Writer's growth experience,constitution,talent meditation and special historical,cultural and political background in specific time,Can Xue obtained distinctive literary achievements.In the age of the pursuit for aesthetic,entertainment and popular literature,Can Xue was away from the reality of social phenomena,blindly pursuing their own soul and human origin of pure literature.After all,it was only idealism of literature,difficult to obtain historical resonance and the masses accepted,only a good literary dreams.