A Discoverer Of Miserable Countrysides

Yan Lian-ke became famous in literature circle with the image of New Countryside Writer .His novels concerns with the life of countrysides and try to express the unknown destiny of them.He is a discoverer of destiny. On one hand,with the intellectual position,his novels are a continuity of 4th May enlightment tradition under the modernization context;On the other hand,as a son of farmers and a writer who has kept ties of blood with countrysides,there are more sympothies and understanding in his mind and less grim criticism. Even for this,he resign from his enlightment position and reconsider the countryside's destiny which was harmed and misunderstood. Meanwhile,there is a kind of farmer-like practical pragmatism in his self-examination. All this influence his novel writting.In his countrysides,there are many ghost stories and mythological patterns. Ghost's appearance in intellectual pragmatism world means Yan's rethinking about intellectual enlightment.The creation of mythology is a kind of expression for historical disappointment .There is a circulating feature in his mythological stories .In his novels,countrysides are going away from dismal coloring gradually and displaying vigorous feature that is the way the writer found out for countrysides.Meanwhile,sacrifice-memorial ceremony patterns are used in his novels and the characters' copying from ancient mythologies makes the death sacred .All of them are methods which are used by the writer to cope with the tragedy of the countrysides. They also reflect the writer's powerlessness forcounrysides' development in future.According to Yan's opinions,the reasons of countryside's tragedy lie in the hurt and suppression from idealogical discourse in society mainstream and the indifferance of intellectuals,that is to say, the reasons of countryside destiny lie in their lack of power.lt is Yan's new attempt in his countryside novels to excavate and discover the truth of the countrysides. From then on,Yan's countryside novels reach a new level. It 's technological factors which make Yan's countryside stories extend.What is covered up are his identical themes,single thoughts way and his powerlessness toward countryside's difficult position.