Language And Revolution

According to the work of Truth and Method by Gadamer, the author would give a detailed explanation on the language experiment of Magret Duras after the May Revolution in 1968 by refusing to be a methodenfanatiker. The radical change in her language expresses the novelist's will to inspire the revolutionary enthusiasm after the failure of the May Revolution. So the style called "the revolutionary-refusal art style" comes into being, including Durasien showed in her works and anti-film language showed in her movies.The first part of this article talks about the false over-stimulated cultural character and social background of the May Revolution. Although the coming to naught of ruling class and authority, the decomposition of social standard, the liberation of the forbidden and the restrained, which were all brought by the May Revolution, make the revolution itself a fracture incident of the history of Europe culture, it also seemed that the over-stimulated mood at that time was false prosperity. Giving up the complicated situation of reality, encouraging the language and rhetoric to charge ahead bravely on the literary front finally gave an end to the prosperous May Revolution. The ideology worshiped its power to take shape the reality so blindly that it became into an Utopia and a dream unavoidably. Furthermore, it seems that the only way to continue the revolution is to make radical change in the language area.Duras brought forth new ideas in language according to the spirit of the May Revolution: "to Forbid" and "to Destroy" . The clear-cut view point of solipsism and the desire admiration showed in the post-1968 works was decided by the democracy declination and pan-desire cultural character in 1968. She practised the revolutionary spirit not only in content but also in form. The mode of expression called Durasien came into being finally. The clumsy, the silence, the gap in the semantic meaning is showed and expressed by the urgent, flourishing and chattering away language style. In a word, the meaning is destroyed by the soaring words.Duras has worked as a director for ten years since the May Revolution. The unique style of her films destroyed the traditional ones, which she called the "digestiblemovies "with bureaucrat-capitalism character. Her unique style called anti-film-language shows great difference from the traditional ones in the following five aspects: the transferability of narrative and the untransferability of normal narrative of traditional movies, the identification and the alienation, the transparency and the outstanding, the sealed single fabricated world and the various ones, the artistic fiction and the reality.After the May Revolution, it seems that the creation of the new narrative technique is the only way to continue and memorize the enthusiasm of the revolution. To some extent, revolution is one of the rights of language and the powerful language can make another revolution.