Mysticism And Contemporary Chinese Vanguard Novel

As a way to explore human spirits and universe mysteries, mysticism is intrinsically connected with literature. Mysticism treats life and universe with a poetic way, and literature comprehends life and universe with a mystical insight, so the combination of both creates a world view of "poetic mysticism". The characteristic of mysticism in the vanguard novel has become an obvious literary phenomenon, but it don't be widely received and acknowledged by academics. In fact, mysticism is not just one or two vanguard writers'creation tendencies, but is all vanguard writers'common artistic features.As one of most mystical novels in Chinese contemporary literature, vanguard novels have its specific historical and cultural background:First, the influences of various Chinese traditional culture of mysticism; Second, the enlightenments of foreign mystical literature such as Symbolism, Expressionism, Magic Realism, and so on; Third, the defeat of traditional rational spirit and the rise of irrationalism in the middle and latter half of the 1980s.First of all, the main features of vanguard novels'mysticism creation focus on following aspects. In the use of language, vanguard novels convey mystery world by symbol, metaphor, allegory, and so on; On the narrative strategies, vanguard novels adapt narrative structures of vacancy-type, circle-type to depict a fantastic and mysterious world; On the themes, vanguard novels put many mysterious phenomenon of life, such as sin, suffering, fate, death, as its subjects.Secondly, put Zaxi Dawa, Can Xue, Ge Fei three writers as cases, because their works describe rich contents of mysticism from different angle and dimension. Zaxi Dawa's magical creations on Tibet, express the mysticism of Tibetan Buddhism about belief, soul, reincarnation and retribution; Can Xue's creations vividly reproduce the original sorcery mysticism by shaping a group of images of witch and by describing a world full of dreams; Ge Fei's creations on the thoughts of original lack and relations about existence and time, extend to the area of existence mysticism.Finally, it should be pointed out that vanguard novels have its unique spirit and aesthetic pursuit by mysticism creation. Mysticism manifests the vanguard writers'spirit of skepticism and spirit of exploration for "existence". Mystic narrative is a kind of radical form for vanguard writers to question, rebel and deconstruct the concept of "reality" and "truth" in the authoritative discourse system, and is a kind of creation for fictional, psychical and soul truth, and is a kind of persistent exploration for another existence of the world. Fable style is a poetic style initiated by Western literature of modernism, and also is an aesthetic style for vanguard novels, which of most can be regarded as "modern fables" of social history in China. Through the creation of mysticism, vanguard writers integrate Chinese contemporary fictions into the modern world literary trend of "fiction into poetry".