A Dilemma Between Artistic Exploration And Reality Concern

The thesis considers of the avant-garde novels which bornin mid-1980s, despite what differences of the composingtechniques or the styles between the representative authors,the composing gesture of them seemed strikingly unanimous. Thatis, they all abandon the depiction of reality and turned aroundto the invention of the artistic form. This trend didn't lastinto the 1990s. Sooner or later, those avant-garde novelwriters tided up with their ambition of artistic exploration,and thus concentrated on the express of the contemporary lifesituation. The thesis tries to keep away the theoreticentanglement of the modernism and the post-modernism, throughthe critic of the texts, chosen the main problems in the texts,through the analyzing and chatting to give a proper explain forthe avant-garde with their changes through 1980s and 1990s, andexpatiates the experiences of how to deal with the dilemmabetween artistic exploration and reality concern.Besides the introduction and conclusion, the thesis isconstituted of 3 parts. The introduction depicts the realityconcern tradition of the Modern Chinese Literature, with thisbackground, viewing the change of the avant-garde and quotingthe question, and using the theory of Terry Eagleton to solve the question. The chapterâ… analyzes the process of exilingfrom the reality of the avant-garde novels: Avant-garde novelsbuild historical scenery, deconstruct the magnificence narrateas well as explore the narrate techniques alone in thehistorical scenery, and thus show the character that similarto the New Historicism but not the same. Under the influencesof the western philosophy about human beings, people in theavant-garde novels become nihility; they lose personalitiesand reality relationships and become the animal of symbols. Thetheme also changes from the Existentialism to the nihilism andeventually leads to the carnival of artistic form techniques.The chapterâ…¡depicts the routes through which avant-gardenovels come back to reality reflection: Yu Hua brings warmemotions of the folk life into his saga novel in 1990s, astowards to the image of father, his attitudes change from criticto respire, which also reflect his attitudes towards tradition.Su Tong and Beicun face the spiritual nobles' embarrassment inthe mundane life. Gefei explores the way to escape from thedesire beguilement. Beicun seeks ultimate solicitude in hisnovels after he believes the Jesus. Sun Ganlu's novels alsoconcentrate on the narrate of stories. The avant-garde novelsshowed exhaustion about artistic exploration in 1990s. The chapterâ…¢analyzes the reasons of the changes of avant-gardenovels through 1980s and 1990s, recognizes that whetherconcerning the reality is one of the most important factor fordetermining the quality of a novel, and talks about how to copewith the problem of exploring artistic form techniques andconcerning reality. The conclusion calls up the avant-gardenovels to keep on going their way.