Luxun's Enlightment Convention And Luling's Novels

As a founder of mordem literature, Luxun provides a kind of spiritual resources. Not only his idea of enlightment such as proposition of reforming national nature, doctrine of humanism but also his unique personality influences a generation of successors, including Luling. The author tries to grasp Luling's inheritance form Luxun and his breakthrough:First, Enlightment thought includes the living condition of people who are enlighted. Usesing pen as javelin, Luling steps in the realistic life fight, and he believes in Hufeng's "hurt from spiritual enslavement". On the base of Luxun's convention of reforming national charactor,Luling heartly dissectes the national psychology of indulging being a slave, and promots the realistism to psychological realistism. But the creative attitude of vivewing life sincerely and bravely is the datum point of obtaining their spiritual relationship. Second, Luxun and Luling both afform life-force. Under different start point and different requests, the "madmen" series in Luling's works display more magnificently than those "maniac" figures in Luxun's. As a result, Luling stretches the space in writing human nature. During the course, Luling shows the awul lonely process of life battle. But both of Runtus'static characteristic and Zhang Laoers'active one, end in the devastation of their life value. So Luling and Luxun's articles have the same style "seemingly non-existant tragedy". Third, another enlightment idea is the abecedarian's personality hiself. In 1940's, Luling raises the flag in Luxun's direction. He let Jiang Chunzu stand for him to emphasize on intellectuals' elitist consciousness. In the real life, Luling opposes authoritative words and pays bitter fold for "one life with two words". We can also find Luxun's spirit from this gradation.Thus, In 1940's when the literature in liberated areas were the main stream, Luling's novels become an unusual existence. The unusual nature makes his novels be an important link between Luxun's enlightment convention and bruise literature , heart-searching literature, humanism discussion from new period.