"Hunger" Writing In Liu Zhenyun 's Novels

Liu Zhenyun’s novels are concerned with "mouth", which is reflected by "eat" and "say", both are presented for the shortage state. The former is physical hunger,people do not have enough food to eat. The latter is people’s spirit hunger, people keep talking while their soul is in a deep loneliness. The first chapter of this article focuses on elucidation of the background of the hunger writing, which includes the writer’s growth and life experience, the comparison with the new period hunger writing works, and modern people’s survival circumstances, thus to illustrate the uniqueness of Liu Zhenyun’s creation. The second chapter concerns the double content of hunger writing, including the material hunger and the spiritual hunger. Physical hunger is manifested as the food-related warmth between the people. There are the considerations of humanity through food, food and power collusion, what’s more, the alienation of human nature caused by a severe shortage of food. Spiritual hunger talks the fact that men indulge themselves in high-tech, and become a slave to the high-tech tools; people in the control of the discourse of the media, and was thrown away from the normal track of life; neglect the weakness, cruelty of rural true postmodern discourse; people live depend on "said". At the same time, the application of irony, make him unique, excel in many contemporary writers. The third chapter focuses on the significance of hunger writing, so as to elucidate the compassion of the writer. In the history, hunger is not only the objective existence, also rise to the "hunger"and "eternal hunger" and become the collective unconscious, determines the national character, national emotion. The writer concludes that it all comes down to power mechanism oppression. In his works, he highlights the ruler’s tyranny and farmers "Caomin" mentality, and shows the brutal and vicious historical life, further discloses its servility and the servility spirit root, makes the criticism of historical rise to cultural criticism. At the same time, because of the stalemate between external oppression mechanism and human inner nature, the history shows the circulation situation, so as to clarify the falsity of historical progress. Liu Zhenyun, through the "talk" way, entered into the bottom of people’s spiritual world and the spiritual life by using sophisticated writing technique, and fully understand and reveal the unique value of the daily language system seemingly meaningless on their lives, The writing shows the compassion of writer. Behind the despair,he still has dearest grandmother, his compassion agitates. But his grandmother is also a soul symbol in writer’s heart, Liu Zhenyun will eventually fall into the double despair and nihility of the history and reality, and of the hometown and city.