Poetical Utopia: On The Art Of Wang Xiao-bo's Fictions

In the increasingly open social and cultural context of the late 20th century, China's contemporary literature finally got across the unified realism literary era which had been going on nearly half a century and into the multiple coexistance stage of realism, modernism and postmodernism. Reviewing Chinese literature diversified sky of 1990s in the 20th century, the emergence of Wang Xiao-bo was like a strange starlight which lit the night sky. As "a master beyond literary circIe",Wang Xiao-bo's unique artistic approach and his liberal humanism ideas in the Chinese literature undoubtedly carved his own, his relaxed text form and profound critical ideas were the new bright spot of contemporary Chinese literature at the turn of the century. He injected a fresh vitality into the weak Chinese contemporary literature by his own heavy life experience and rich culture knowledge with the pioneer art form of western modernism fiction and the rational spirit of profound reflection on history.This article is based on the sense of reading Wang Xiao-bo's all texts, it completely combs Wang Xiao-bo's overall fictions from the perspective of modern fiction art ,and it is based on the research of former scholars. It consists of three parts which are introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction outlines Wang Xiao-bo's life course and his fictions' situation and significance in Chinese contemporary literature. The body is the focus of the article , it contains three chapters :Chapter I explains that Wang Xiao-bo's fiction is a kind of wisdom literature by comparing it with the traditional narrative of subjective feelings and the ethical enlightenment literature. It is based on the modern narrative (metafiction narrative, new historical narrative, anti-utopian narrative) and breaks up the traditional forbidden zone with the gesture beyond the shamed culture.Chapter II gets into the specific analysis to the text. Firstly it grasps the overallreading sense and the narrative strategy------Dreaming Utopia. Wang Xiao-bo created hisown unique poetical version from three time latitudes of the past, present andfuture-----three Utopias: If we see a contemporary Utopian farce from the CulturalRevolution narrative of the "golden age"------contemporary nightmare, then we can see ahistory cold platter (history Utopia) in the new historical narrative of the "bronze age",where the history and reality was both intermixed------historical dreams, and we canalso see a imaginative fable future Utopia in the anti-utopian narrative of "silver age" and"iron age"...... future nightmare. Secondly, this chapter selectively studies the mainrhetoric skills of Wang Xiao-bo's fictions from the macro-rhetoric way (referring to the...