A Study Of The Prefaces And Postscripts Of Jia Pingwa's Saga Novels And Its Significance

Jia Pingwa is not only a great existence, but also a complicated existence. If we compare all works of Jia Pingwa to a complex which is in picturesque disorder, then the saga novels of Jia Pingwa are the magnificent buildings among it, and the prologues and epilogues of Jia Pingwa's saga novels are windows of the high-rise buildings, and we can see some beautiful views in the buildings through these windows.This paper is composed of four sections, the first section is exordium, we try to tease out the research situation of Jia Pingwa's saga novels in this section, and we carry out this work from the imagery and structure dimensions, the narrative, style (characters) and language dimensions, female dimension, the psychology, mentality, consciousness and spirit dimensions, text explanation dimension, native-soil, regionality and folk nature dimensions, mystique dimension, comparison and relationship dimensions and whole dimension etc.The second section is the features of the prologues and epilogues of Jia Pingwa's saga novels, which include style characteristics and text characteristics.The style characteristics are attachment and independence, stability and variability, and the text characteristics are graceful characters, rich contents, flexible structure, sincere sensibilities, deep connotation, and original style. We take the epilogue of Shaanxi Opera for example to prove these characteristics.The third section is the content and value of the prologues and epilogues of Jia Pingwa's saga novels,which include the causes and process's introductions of every work's creation, the show of Jia Pingwa's literary view, and intertexture and the prologues and epilogues'significance of Jia Pingwa's saga novels etc.The last section is concluding remarks, which introduce some questions awaiting solution of this paperThe prologues and epilogues of Jia Pingwa's saga novels is so charming that it worth our deep research.