Our Ancestors And The Fiction Of Fairy Tales

Calvino's trilogy Our Ancestors consists of three novels written in the form of the Fiction of Fairy Tales with realist imports, which borrows the story prototype in Italian fairy tales. With plentiful imagination, three bizarre fairy tales are narrated in the framework of fairy tales creation. In this thesis, the relationship between Our Ancestors and the traditional fiction of fairy tales is discussed from the two aspects of succession and excess.The trilogy inherits several elements of traditional fairy tales, such as the characters of fairy tales. Like other fairy tales, nobility is the leading roles, and these characters have completed a certain narrative function. The story plot is bizarre and free-flowing, full of adventures. Adopting the narrative perspective of children and the language of fairy tales, Calvino's writing technique inherits the narrative mode of "syllogism" of folk tales. Therefore, all of these make the novels be provided with thick fairy tales colors and have a kind of lightness beauty.Meanwhile, as a writer with strong sense of social responsibility, Calvino doesn't write the trilogy as a series of adventure like some other fairy tales. It pointes directly to the modern people's life, and contains profound implication. The Nonexistent Knight tells about a story of nonexistent knight Akiluerful searching himself. The knight has no physical presence, only executing commands with super will power can confirm himself. And this is a metaphor for the organization man who is tied up by the modern society system. In The Cloven Viscount, Viscount Medardo is unfortunately divided into two halves in the war, representing good and evil. Incomplete body leads to incomplete psychology, and the two incomplete persons can not avoid lonely life, and that makes people ponder the conflicts between good and evil in human nature. Baron in the Trees represents a higher pursuit. Kexi Mo is a fighter to search spiritual freedom. From the moment Kexi Mo jumps into the tree, he begins to pursuit freedom. Even to the end of his life he would not get down from the tree, but get onto the hot air balloon to leave the land he loves, and fulfill his promise of "not get down from the tree".In the form, the unstrained imagination which gives the work more space to play has long been highly praised. The author uses simple language, but it hides profound meaning. The artistic technique of naturalization makes the work much better than other fairy tales in artistry. In this work, the author shows us his new vision of man and nature from the three tales which happens in forests, looking forward to building up an ideal and perfect world with harmony relationship between man and nature. Calvino's Our Ancestors, using light language and image to indicate the defect of the real world and to pursuit a higher integrity, reflects the lightness beauty style of the novel. In other words, Calvino completes three light and easy novels and integrates a brilliant chapter with fairy tales, reality and philosophy.