A Study On Vernacular Novels Of Jia Pingwa

Jia Pingwa is the most influencial contemporary vernacular author. Deep concerns for local complex and realistic have become the vital spiritual clues throughout all his novels. Based on the study of novels of Jia Pingwa and a summary of his unique artistic charms, this thesis will analyze the concerns about all kinds of problems during the process of modernization of Shangzhou and explore the state of peasant life style in new periods,as well as spiritual way out for vernacular China in course of her urbanization.The article is divided into three parts: Chapter 1 is a description of the routine and change of Shangzhou culture. When Jia Pingwa creates his novels, Shangzhou culture is the main source of inspiration. Shangzhou natural scene as well as the local and traditional culture has profound impact on them, which is inherited to form the routine in his novels. Meanwhile, ever since the new era of reform and opening to the outside world, western cultures have come into China, which produce a great effect on ancient Shangzhou, leading to its change reflected in his novels. Among the discussion of the effects of Shangzhou culture, the author attempts to find the meaning of human existence that Jia Pingwa is exploring. This is also can be regarded as the effect of Sartre Existentialism Literature. Chapter 2 is about Qin-opera and land charm; the author tries to analyze Jia Pingwa's novels from the point of view of language and his ingeniously introducing classical dialect, especially the local Qin-opera into modern literature. Upon this, his novel is injected into regional features and has more implement expressiveness. Chapter 3 describes the life phenomena of Shanxi (Shanxi was also named Sanqin in ancient times). Talking about the simple relationships, human alienation due to money and the analysis of the living condition and mental status of the peasants, this part will try to understand Jia Pingwa's concerns about the constant depression of rural area and the double poverty of peasant's mental and material world since the 1990s.Jia Pingwa has produced a great number of works with diligency and creation. Ever since the 1970s, he has published about 20 long novels, 30 medium novels, 30 prose collections as well as quotations, critics, poems and calligraghs, which have been translated into Japanese, French and Korean and spread abroad. Works on his novels are rich and comprehensive. At different stages of his creation, scholars have made varied comments on his works, to the effective of posive.Jia pingwa has realistically described Shangzhou life customs and style he is familiar with, the comments on which are manifold. As a writer growing up around the 1970s and 1980s, his thinking style and value perception are inevitabally inluenced by western literature tides and schools. Existential researches on his vernacular novels are profound, and his research into countryside value perception and peasants'living conditions are the targets of scholars. However, such topics as individual loneliness and death, absurdity and estrangement in the relations among people reflected in his novels lack sufficient emphasis.The present paper mainly adopts literature review and comparative analysis as research method. Based on the set topic, the author obtains materials via literature review and analyzes and summarizes related works and papers, so as to fully and correctly understand the research condidtions both in history and at present, and sort out the references valuable to research of the topic.In short, Jia Pingwa presents us original picture and strong northwest local customs since reform and opening up, so that we can keep pace with the times and understand the new change of rural and new spirit of peasants.