Hopeless Salvation

Yu Hua is famous for his unique narrating style and distinctive sense of egoism in the literary world of modem time. Since the publication of Leaving Home at the Age of 18, Yu Hua has established a world of fiction both for himself and the time, which is totally different from the traditional society.Each of Yu Hua's work is particular, all of which comes from his uniqueness of his mode of thinking and the language the way he narrates, and also from a special way of his awareness for the world.Yu Hua is like a prophet living in solitude, who is afraid of the inclemency of the world and dreadfulness of human nature, and also worries about his own disability for that, but calmly tells a premonition that a doomsday is coming unconventionally.The essay wants to further grasp the specialty of Yu Hua's novel and its influence in modern literary world by looking through Yu Hua's novel thoroughly. Of course, just in terms of positive standpoint, it also points out some straits in Yu Hua's novel. By analyzing and introspecting special case of Yu Hua's novel, we are expecting to give some helpful revelation for the construction of the modern literature.The essays consists of seven parts:The first part is Preface.The second part is theme code of Yu Hua's novel. And the spirit and meaning of Yu Hua's novels are connected with some of distinctive or indistinctive theme codes. Understanding all of this theme code, such as disaster, death, evil, despair, salvation, etc will give way to understand Yu Hua's novels.The third part is the narrating strategy of Yu Hua's novel. From the addiction to the form and technical in 1980s to high awareness of that, till going back to nature in the creation of the novels Living and The Account of Xu Sanguan Selling Blood, all of which reveal the trace from practice , theory and to practice again. Here we look back about Yu Hua's "method", so as to enlarge it better than the method of nature.The fourth part is about his surviving philosophy. Yu Hua is a futilitarian, in the literary world of modern time, he is the first to put human himself under his instinct to look over at it, and finally reveals the dark aspect of both human and the worldextremely by describing the cruelty in the somatic violence.Part Five is esthetic trend of Yu Hua's novels. In all his creations, language usage from the inchoate ruthlessness and blood to later relaxation, desolation, understanding and toleration, all of the great change of his writing style comes from the change of his view on human being and the society.Part six is about which is the way out of Yu Hua's novels. In the unpredictable world, facing the multifactors of both spiritual and material life, we are waiting for the authors to make the way out.Part Seven is the tag.Compared the leitmotiv of the true , the good and the beautiful in the modern literature, Yu Hua's novels, by retrospecting and surveying "the true", have gone to another way different from the traditional literature, that is, from the true(the reality of the world), to evil (the human nature), till filth. From Yu Hua's novel, we may know that the author has given up his position of middle-of-the-roaders and has begun to reveal and uncover the principle of the world itself. This actually means a profound change of one's stand, from ontology of humanitarianism to universal ontology of Post humanitarianism. According to negation of negation principle of materialistic, only when the author goes back to human in a higher scope will he finally make his own way.