Avant-garde Returning

In the 1980s, Yu Hua became a representative avant-garde writer and won great popularity in the whole of the literary world, known for his avant-garde and experimental style. His avant-garde novel describes death, blood and violence in sober style and reveals human cruelty and existent absurdity. In the early 1990s, YuHua wrote Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and To Live, in which he weakened the modality experiment, put an end to text play and turned to give attention to the character's fate and attached great importance to the scenario, rebuilt the logos profundity in pursuit of the meaning of value, and thus realized the transformation from avant-garde to reality. But YuHua's spirit didn't end and he never stopped his probing. As what can be shown in fact, his fiction Brothers , published in the year of 2005 and 2006, soberly narrated violence, absurdity, the ugliness of humanity, and other topics sharply opposite to the world. By discussing the tragic state of human existing, probing into human initiative world, exploring the absurdity of the world and time, and closely questioning the truth of human and world, he brightly showed his spirit of avant-garde.In Brothers, which returns to avant-garde style, YuHua were still absorbed in the expression of violence. He soberly exposed the world rational civilization and culture. By narrating soberly and exquisitely, he gave us a strong feeling by narrating violence and slaughter, shocking the readers' sense and heart.YuHua penetrated human initiative world and discover the darkest, ugliest, cruelest aspect of humanity. He started with the group spying of Liu County and examined national people's soul ad revealed the inferiority of the national people.YuHua surpassed the objective truth and daily experience, explored the absurdity of the world and time, and revealed that the essence of the world and time is not rationality and order, but ubiquitous absurdity.When returning to avant-garde style, Brothers also made a breakpoint in it. It not only narrated violence, but also warmth; it revealed human ugliness and also the kindness; it pointed to the objective truth and introduced mass popular elements.Brothers makes breakthrough in succession.It shows YuHua's ever-searchinng sense of avant-garde.