A Comparative Study Of Murakami Haruki And Mo Yan In The Perspective Of Magic Realism

Murakami Haruki and Mo Yan as outstanding writers grew up in different countries of the same time. In their literary field,they not only open up a unique path, also won the high praise in the world. Although the two writer’s life experience and cultural background have very big difference, but the two writers in the literary creation are inclined to use technique of Latin American magic realism art. So this article will be in the vision of magic realism to compare their life experiences and literary works.The content of this thesis generally include the following aspects:The first part, introduction. This section describes Murakami Haruki and Mo Yan and their work results of the study in the two countries.The second part will with Latin American magic realism as the basic clue, briefly describes the development of the magical realism, its own literary characteristics, and the literary discussion of its category. Also introduce the magical realism literature influence on Chinese and Japanese literature, and the influence of Murakami Haruki and Mo Yan.The third part from the pursuit of the real historical conception, the theme of loneliness, as well as to the classic text of parodying these three angles, the two writers literary creation. In pursuit of history is, compared with the historical Murakami confined to national narrowness, Mo Yan can stand in the neutral point of view of history to a visual description of all aspects. On the view of loneliness theme, Mo Yan is more of a projecting his lonely experience to the protagonist, while Murakami found widespread human spiritual emptiness in modern society. On of parody of classical literature, both writers in the literary creation with the art gimmick, make the work more style.Although Murakami and Mo Yan two writers also exist in other ways more obvious with the same difference, but this article will view in magic realism, through the two writer’s life experience and literary creation more find their similarities and sparkle.