The Unbearable Heaviness Of Being

Fang Fang was born in a family with a long history of intellectuals, which giving her temperament a strong intellectual's style and most of her novels a subject of intellectuals. As a writer of strong intellectual awareness, she continues to focus on the fate of intellectuals in her novels. Fang Fang's intellectuals are mostly represented by three generations in the mode of grandparent-parent-child. Athough three generations have their own fate In different background, the tragedy of their fate continues in a same way. When we analysis these intellectuals generally, we can see that they all have their mental bewildered, and in confusion and perplexity, have their life vanished, spirit declined or slide into split personality. They can not conquer their fate, and the whole difficulties become an unbearable tragedy.Five chapters are included in this paper. The first is an introduction, three parts follows as the main of the text, and a conclusion is drawn in the end. Introduction is a preliminary summary largely concerning Fang Fang's writing of intellectual, from the mental burden of intellectuals to their tragedy fate ultimately formed. On this basis, the argument continues to the relations between Fang Fang's fictions and the traditional writing about intellectuals, especially to their differences.Partâ… :Fang Fang grew up in an intellectual family, in fact.she is writing life of her experience.because she is one of his or her partand she know well about their life. My grandfather on my father's heart describes a man who looks like Qu Yuan in the spiritual sense,the grandfathers died like a hero and left an effect on the fathers of anxiety. As the young intellectual, the father's generation 's effct shows a declining picture of their life. The Sub-generation that whom feel the spirit of increasing is not decreasing, but the clash of father and son's appearance, the intellectuals mental incurs disillusionment again.Partâ…¡:Fang Fang's intellectual theme's background transfrom from all the important historical period in 20th century, if put it together, it can be called a 20th century of the intellectuals' history and the suffering of the spirit, demanding the intellectual value, description of the different generations of intellectuals in the background of a different mentality and the same fate. On the different background, although the fate of three generations of intellectuals is different, they cannot escape from the tragic fate,and for three generations there is no way but facing the tragic destiny.Partâ…¢:the suffering of the intellectuals is homeless.Fang Fang shows a series of images of female intellectuals without being loved in her works. These women who have some common with the man in the demanding for the value of life,but there is a clearly difference.Women intellectuals have a espicially strong sense of home.Because of various factors, women intellectuals'home can be found nowhere, the personality is being divided as the same as man intellectuals,who cannot escape from tragedy fate,either.The part of conclusion is summarized as the mental burden of intellectual in Fang Fang's novel.By description of the spirit burden of intellectualwhat Fang Fang wants to convey that the trational value which we must stick to,appealing to the intellectual's humanistic spirit as well.