On The Tragic Writing In Urban Novels In The 1990s

With the rapid development of city in the1990s, a lot of urban novels catch our attentions and become the mainstream of the literature world. Many urban novels’ writers reflect the urban life of the transition truly according to their own experience. Besides showing the modernity of the urban civilization, they also present various tragedies in the transitional city beyond "hide and cheat" and try to seek the power to go beyond the tragic life. They puncture the fairy tales of the city which is the symbol of modernity, pay attention to people in the tragic situation and give them a humanitarian concern. At the same time, they appeal to establish a more healthy urban order. Their novels embody the humanistic sensibilities and sincere compassion feelings.This thesis focus on the tragedies in the1990s’ urban novels and analysis them in the views of types, characteristics and reasons in order to get a comprehensive understanding of the urban novels and explore the meaning in the literature history.The tragedies in the1990s’ urban novels mainly contains the survival tragedy of the bottom of the city and the women, the spiritual tragedy of losing personality, humanistic ideals disillusionment and the vacuum of love, and the social tragedy of the imbalance of the traditional values and the loss of the native world. In the comparison with the urban novels in the1980s, wm can find the tragedies in the1990s’ urban novels highlight the urban space and the desire. What’s more, the tragedies reveal the conflict between urban and rural areas in the transitional period. The third chapter is about the reasons for the formation of the tragedies in the1990s’ urban novels. The reasons include the effect of social background, the tradition of tragedy in1980s’literature and the writers’ living experience and writing ideas. The writing of tragedy reflects the care and the compassion of the bottom of the city. In addition, it also embodies their thinking of the modern urban civilization. Moreover, the writing of tragedy in the1990s’urban novels is farewell performance of grand narrative. On the whole, these three aspects constitute the meaning of the writing of the tragedy in the1990s’urban novels.