Humanistic Emotions Of An Idealist

Wang Anyi, with her changeable writing style and wide scope of creation, is regarded as a prominent contemporary female writer who pays great attention to the characters' mature period in the process of her writing. This thesis mainly studies the diachronic development in her grown-up narrative novels, tries to find the differences between the real materials in life and the trumped-up plots in her works, and further probes the purpose and meaning of the author's constant concerns on this theme. It consists of four parts: part one deals with the content about her grown-up narration from the diachronic perspective; part two comes to the influence of author's childhood experiences on her later creation and the idealistic thought reflected from the choice between the real life and the made-up plot; part three analyzes the daily description of the narrative background in Cultural Revolution period and the aesthetic ideal from the description; based on the continuous attention to the grown-up narration, part four studies the meaning of such creation. Therefore, the thesis writer (笔者) believes that through describing the author's own loneliness in her maturity which is up to a common feeling of human in later period, Wang Anyi tries very hard to seek a spiritual road of salvation, expressing her humanistic emotions and a kind of continuous effort of improving human mental condition.