Gazing At A Flower, While He Stands On The Roof Of Hell

As a honest and serious writer, Lier has t abundant knowledge and deep thoughts. His writing always bravely confronts the historical reality and cares the living experience of intellectuals. While trying to disclose the "existential absurdity" of the intellectual group, he also works hard on the unveiling of the complicated meaning underlying the three most important words: history, reality and exist. If I can describe his existential pose in a lyrical way, in order to depict his perseverance and tenacity in exploring and creating, I would say, "gazing at a flower ,while he stands on the roof of hell" is the right picture.Lier 's novel inherits the resource of "avant_ courier narrating". He not only pays attention to the form and language, but also the creating of meaning. And rhetoric, the most effective strategy in Lier 's novel, produces the wide meaning space of the texts. And this essay will try to expound the value and visage of Lier 's works from the perspective of rhetoric.From the perspective of "micro_ rhetoric", I will analyze the rhetorical skills in three aspects: structure, details and language. By the suspending of the finis, Lier has made his novel opening to real life, and disclosed the "hanging state" and "consciousness of crisis" of modern people. The representing of the disorder of ordinary life can be enhanced by the use of "detail narrating" , while the aesthetic characteristics of "post_ modern time" , which is marked by the breaking of "logos center" and the appearance of "multi_ social background ", is also reflected in these details. As for the point of language, Lier melts all kinds of language style to create his own intellectual discourse, and build the symbolic relationship between the language form and the existing state of intellectuals.From the perspective of "macro_ rhetoric", I will discuss the two most distinguished rhetoric style in lier 's novel: irony and dialogism. It seems that dialogism has become the aesthetic principle of our time, and it is so commonly used by writers. But lier 's use of it has made the unique ironical effect in his novel. While this ironic style has greatly contributed to the presenting of the absurdity ofintellectual's ordinary life, the limit it brings is also seeable. The very distinguished "multi_ dialogue rhetoric" in Lier's novel, from one aspect, has shown his creative contribution to the styles of modern novel; from the other aspect, has forced his writing to face the real existential plight.Through the hardly exploring of narrative form, Lier has pondered over the expressing way of traditional literature and shown the multiply possibility of narrating art. While enriching the narrative resource of modern novel, he has formed a deep reflection on the present ideology and existence.But due to the intervention of the strong writing intention which is related to present ideology , the effect of the rhetoric can hardly be fulfilled. His underlying rhetoric intention is often destroyed by the over subjective and direct narrating . so the strength and the charm of the text is always weakened.