The Study Of The Officialdom Novels Of Modern Times

Officialdom is the social existence focused by people .In the modern times, the extension of corruption in the officialdom provides social foundation for the flourish of officialdom novels. The officialdom novels of modern times are a wring phenomenon that does not deserve to be ignored. With the spirit of realism, they reflect the existence and operation of official power .Unfolding a specific world ,they embody high value of cognizance and enlivening significance in the society .Among them ,there are many excellent works ,which exhibit unique features though narrative methods characters and subject matters ,and they have many readers . The officialdom novels don't draw enough attention in the literary circles for a long time . Without deep ideological insight or esthetic interpretation ,the literary circles even denounce the officialdom novels as non-literature by focusing merely on the political and sociological surpass of them .On the basis of the extensive works and relative researches ,this thesis provides an insightful discussion of achievements and weak points of officialdom novels from the perspective of regular pattern of novels generally and macroscopically .This thesis has four parts .Part I :the definition of officialdom novels ,the insightful discussion of the development of them ,and the primary analysis of the reasons of their flourishing ;Part II :the construction of subject matters of officialdom novels by probing analysis into official corruption ,official and social psychologies ;Part III: the of artistic features of characters and narrative (i.e. narrative perspective constructions ,discourse and ironical narration ),which are illustrated by the positive characters with personalities ,negative ones with complex characteristics ,more importantly ,the vulgar existence ofgray characters ,the discovery of features of narrative methods with the contract of two types of novels ; Part IV: the positive comment on the realistic rules of officialdom novels and the surpassing of the previous ones ,the shortcomings from the artistic perspective : the adoption to the reality seriously fetters artistic imagination of literature works ,it also reads to the lacking of insightful thinking ,the simple characters fail to reveal artistic glamour ,the routinized narrative methods also degrades the artistic savor of works . Art is not the mere reflection of life ,but the recreation of it .Encountering the real life ,the officialdom novels need to surpass it. The unbounding of the wrings of artistry and ideology can elevate the artistic value of the officialdom novels .Provided writers could extend and elevate the esthetic connotation of works with artistic perspective, could discover deeper ideology and enrich artistry of works , Officialdom novels are due to obtain more extensive space of development with the production of more works .