The Writing Which Was Facing Himself

In 1980s, Han Dong's representative poems You've Seen the Sea and About Tower Dayan has established his fame in the history of contemporary Chinese poetry. In the early 1990s, Han Dong transferred to novels and was called the New-generation Writer or Newly-born Writer by critics as his novels reflect "rupture" from the traditional novels. Most of his poems and novels represent the truth of life in his eyes with details of everyday life, showing his intended refusal of and dissociation from the mainstream discourse as well as the dispelling of the focus and the meanings. Till now we have found many articles concentrate on Han Dong's poetry and there are also some individual essays focusing on his novels. This paper tries to do some research and investigations of his novels as a whole, revealing that his novels are the writing for himself and hence characteristics of his writings are embodied in this style.This paper comprises four chapters. The first chapter starts from the similarity of concepts of Han Dong's poetry and novels and analyzes the poetry-like characteristic, the "anti-novel" characteristic and his idea of fiction novels through his inter-textual use of poetry and novels. The second chapter mainly talks about his personalized writings and its significance in literature. Han Dong insists on personal experience during his writing and adopts the writing style similar to real life. Many of his novels have reflected his own experiences. His novels are regarded as complanate writings as most of his novels display the superficial phenomena of the meaningless life. I believe that Han Dong achieves the truth of his own in questioning and questing of meanings, which has relation with his background of having been born in 1960s. Finally the paper intends to categorize the subjects of his novels. The third chapter makes an analysis of his narration of sex and love by using examples of Barrier, My Plato, Intersecting Running and You and Me. His disintegrating of love and description of sex's role in psychology make us realize that Han Dong has different ideas from the general, peeling the mysterious veil over love and uncovering its true features. The fourth chapter mainly offers an analysis of the narrative strategies in his novels from the following three aspects: the perspective of childhood, use of meta-novel, and the penetrating and combing of relationship between characters.