Li Jianwu's Drama Creation And French Literature

When Li Jianwu missed the Chinese social reality orientation in 1931, his father's friends and relatives helped him go overseas successfully. In France, as a students for two years, on the one hand, he studied day and night in Flaubert, Mauriat and other works,the impact of foreign literatures and artistic thought made him go beyond the general view of Chinese literature; On the other hand, far from the reality battle of China's literature environment, he made great efforts to catch up with the trend of French literature and had more time to practice the skills of drama creation.In France,he completed the most important three-act play "The home of the village".The play was obviously different from his preceding works, the plot of the play was from the simple to complex, the characters were from the single to multiple, and the drama background happened in North Chinese village in the countryside other than in the city,so the works was recognized as the most important plays written in France . He wrote and recomposed over 40 plays including comedies and legendary plays throughout his life, and made great contributions to development of the modern Chinese dramas.But, you probably ask me what reason prompted Li Jianwu to make the change before and after in his plays creation, why the dramas are so different obviously? In my opinion, the internal factors caused the author to change, but the external factors also played an essential role. Only if the internal and external factors of the change were grasped, we could remark matter of factly the change of the drama creation before and after.The thesis to be discussed is about the absorption and innovation of the French literature by the modern Chinese writer and dramatist Li Jianwu's creation. In particular, it was the elicitation and influence of Bergson, Flaubert as well as Paul Mauriat, and how he accepted the effection and innovation. Li Jianwu's dramas, especially his maturity works created a different plays world, we take the method of the impact study and accept research in the field of comparative literature to pursue the influence of French literature. From my thesis, we can know how Li Jianwu's dramatic works absorbed the skills and styles of French literature; in the 1930s-1940s, how he made his choice between Chinese and french culture and at last formed his own unique charm and style-oriented literature. It was because Li Jianwu insorb French writer Henri·Bergson "beauty on continuous", Flaubert relentless pursuit and self-rethinking of arts and emotion, as well as custom humor comedy in the arts of Paul Mauria that made his dramas style great different from the contemporary authors'.