A Comparison Of Fiction Theory Of Bakhtin And Kundera

In the development course of the theory of the western novel in the 20th century, scholar of the former Soviet Union Bakhtin and French novelist Kundera are occupying very important status. Resisting to totalitarian politics, and caring for human survival, make Bakhtin and Kundera who have similar destiny circumstances, go from resist autocratic to oppress, defend mankind to be free to originally very set out to make, go on questioning and deep introspection of western culture of the human survival reality. They direct against the western modern culture crisis, the western modern's existence crisis, in line with explore life, world copies of true sense of duty, launch person who criticize is it think to examine and concrete existence circumstances in people probe into to the west modern culture, try hard to seek the reconstruction of entity and freedom spirit from the culture aspect. Thus while existing, people's uniqueness, true colours of the variety and complexity. With abolishing the criterion, pursuing freedom, respecting personal experience, paying attention to reflect reality, as it characteristics the novel types match case with the true position and soul pursue for human survival and against totalitarian politics by Bakhtin and Kundera. The fiction theories of Bakhtin and kundera are identical in spiritual essence, ideological connotation and values in spite of the difference between the system strictness and informal essays or jottings. The foundation of their fiction theories are both based on the reflections on the intrinsic quality of existence critique of the Western culture, which is of special value in the cultural poetry science. Their theoretical core is to safeguard human liberty, reconstruct and carry forward the state of human's main body and deeply reveal the cultural characteristics of the Western novels, and lay emphasis on the function of the cultural criticism and the cultural structure, entrust to novels the serious mission of cultural salvation. The paper begins with cultural criticism and noumenon thinking. From the aspects of the " the quality of dialogue " and " relativity " of the essential theory of the novel, " revelry" and " humor " etc, furthermore, by the concrete of expression, smile tease, weird, miscellaneous language in it. The author makes a systematic exposition and makes a comparison of the two theories in the hopes of conforming their theoretical value.