On Absurdity And Absurd Literature

Absurdity is a kind of emotional experience. It is used to describe a mood or conflict that is unreasonable, impossible and meaningless. Absurdity is not only human being's active consciousness to this world but also one kind of cruel and nervous competition between people's intention and reality. The sensitive humane tentacle and fresh mind make them easy to catch those absurd phenomenons, which always seem difficult to be perceived but press and corrupt human beings. Camus once pointed two routes for those people possessing absurdity: Escape (commit suicide) or revolt (live vividly). Ancient Greek full of humane spirit lived in the harmonious circumstances. In that period how could the absurdity find a foothold? In Middle Ages the humane spirit withered away gradually. People had lost their pursuits for humanity, freedom of will and independent strength of personality .In this situation, absurdity could not appear as well. People were also not able to feel exist of absurdity in those periods when the humane spirit reviewed or the humane reason was established. This is because the movements of social reform make people enjoy the fruits brought by reason tentatively. Hegel's philosophy system marked that rationalism had developed to extremes. This rational system was so absolute and strict that the humane reason was shackled only to survive relying on science reason; this situation initiates the indomitable humane reason's breaking through. The war reduced Modern Europe to ruins confronted with such upshot transformed by hundred-year reason. European hadn't trusted that meaning and fancy mere being. The humane reason was disfavored and the human being was lost. Peoples have experienced alienation that is one aspect of existing essence. Alienation is one kind of progress of activity. Human being's alienation is the activity different from human being's essence. Alienation implies some contrast between today's activity and human being's essences. Absurdity has grown out of alienation in which there is a cruel conflict and strained competition between real world and humane reason. Absurdity is the feeling focus of alienation and assembles people's feeling experience about alienation that is unreasonable, valueless, meaningless and hard to say. Though absurdity has always been considered irrational or anti-rational, in fact the rational factor lies at the back of absurdity. Absurdity is the fruit of people's real life .it is merely the product of peripheral life, if religion is taken as human being's First self-consciousness; reason is the second, yet the absurdity is the third. Corresponding the social development, religion tends to die out, reason and absurdity will follow human being's exist and development forever. The realization of absurdity draws support from its expression and being expressed .If we determine every school of modern literature one by one, we can find that each school has the gene of absurdity. However the schools that have absurd appearance and blood are expressionism literature, existentialism literature, absurd drama and black humor novel. These schools of literature are closest by blood each other. The Chinese ancient times, whether the kingly way regardless culture, or the violent in action rule, all have never given birth to the humanism spirit of resembling the western meaning. So that people want to feel the person's nonsense absurdity feeling of losing human being in this time is very difficult. Under the influence of west thought, Chinese did not start expressing to want to be a person who be the character integrity definitely until near modern but can not of depressed, and feel the absurdity of the realistic world profoundly and nonsense. However, inside the great environment of the civil and outside war, people have put energies all at for existence and thinking and conflict up, which leads to the sport of enlighten that aim to behaving to contend for do the thought of person's qualifications to come to an untimely end. The 10-year Cultural Revolution make person be subjected to the deathblow to the world and the person's confidence, last century the end of 70's hereafter of a literature work with thicker absurd meaning therefore appear. Though people downplay to the memory of the Cultural Revolution gradually, in the Chinese society of the modern merchandise economy the alienation phenomenon that the same still exists in the person. As a result, literature work of absurdity shouldn't be a rare thing that is difficult to look for. There are some mostly reasons accounts for why absurdity is rare in Chinese contemporary literature work. First, today people's reasonableness idea is still very weak in general. Second, because of the influence from the tradition culture, people who face tragedy pain and sufferings do not wish to make the deep self-reflection and sincerities to repent. Finally, ideology has the durance of the academic research and literature expression of the alienation property and absurd color thought. As a kind of aesthetic appearance, absurdity seems to be classified with ugly, strange and funny. In fact, if someone says funny, ugly and strange are larruping, absurdity is larruping of larruping. Aesthetic appearance of absurdity always appears with the ugly and strange image, exactly for the sake of expression to at that moment the disaffection of the reasonableness dimensions, to at that moment the reasonableness order resist, to at that moment rational of nonsense carry on the mum solution of decipher. Aesthetic modernity of absurdity largely embody through the person words and actions now out of accordance with the story details breach logic normal regulations, the much more ambiguous righteousness of the thought meaning is unfathomable, expressing overall brush-off toward the reasonableness and meaning. For aesthetic modernity of absurdity, we can't negate its exist, nor to accept completely. As long as we presume to know, presume to study, presuming to operate, aesthetic modernity of absurdity also will lead us to more for abundance civilization of living.