Contemporary Anxiety Hiding In "Tramping"

At turn of the century, there are some novels about tramps in contemporary chinese literature, such as Xuxing's"Shengxiade Dou Shuyu Ni",Wang Anyi's"Biandixiaoxiong"and Ningken's"Mengmianzhicheng"and so on. The article aims to card this group of"tramps novels", analyzes the background of these novels, and finds out the inherent implication of novel hidden behind.The article is divided into three parts.The first part introduces the concept of the theme of"vagrant"in western literature and the aesthetic features of"picaresque novels". Picaresque novels always reflect rigorous social reality by heroine's talking about meeting all misfortune which happened in the way of journey. As far as Chinese society and the environment of literature, we can see, these novels whose Theme is about tramps have many common features: these novels described the tramps'travelling experience in China, and their struggling with material and the desire, then expressed the complex social thinking of authors.The second part generalizes three novels narrative form of these novels, meanwhile analyzes specific text of three novels. Xuxing's"Shengxiade Dou Shuyu Ni"is a story of two tramps who tramped from cities to villages, form east to west, displaying the spirit of handcuffed and oppression in the modern human society. This novel belongs to the form of modernism "self-exile". Through a silly ignorance "idiots" whose name was Maodou, who translated from the normal social world to the brink, Wang Anyi's"Biandixiaoxiong"reveals the tension of modern civilization and country's civilization, also reveals modern the weakening and alienation of human nature. This novel belongs to the form of"idiots'adventure". There was a perfect tramp character whose name was Mage in Ningken's"Mengmianzhicheng". Mage's rejecting to inherent life and material things, and seeking the right of self-expression and self-exiled show author's hope of stray Romantic ideals. This novel belongs to the form of idealism "roaming". The third part analyzes the differences between these novels with western picaresque novels and similar novels in Chinese modern literature. We can find that, through these novels describing the experience of tramps, they always want to find where they can live happily, these novels have a sense of desolation which involved"where to settle down", so the characters were tragedy. If the novels about tramps in modern literature show how authors experienced the suffering of the nation and individuals, then the novels in contemporary literature show intellectuals'anxiety to reality.