On Guizi's Novels

This thesis is studying novels of Guizi, a writer in Guangxi, mainly in three chapters.The first chapter will analyze the"tile city"created by Guizi. Tile, conveying sense of fringe identity and low-status, is that by which"tile city"distinguish from other cities. People in tile city live in the city but belong to the country, with a strong anxiety about their identity and surviving desire. But the desire leads to deeper suffering, and become even a synonym of suffering, through the struggle with which a great tension is shown of people's lives.The second chapter is about the theme of suffering and its way of expression. Suffering is life's nature, while Guizi's writing is suffering itself. There are two kinds of suffering: surviving suffering and mental suffering, either of which will be focused on or both will be intertwined depending on different occasions. In Guizi's narration, a fighting consciousness is summoned up grabbing people from slipping into suffering's slouch, invoking their surviving vitality like the wild grass. And suffering is deepened by paranoid personalities struggling persistently for a solution. Incidents are employed to pace up the narration.The last chapter will analyze the narration of death and its aesthetic effect in Guizi's novels. Traditional death narration is product of the grand narration in pursuit of political-moral purposes such as morality, feat and works. However, Guizi's heros die of their own free will, which is passion due to long time suppression. A cold, ghastly aestheticism can be felt in Guizi's novels. His description of death is detached and self-contained, while the conflicts of sensations are clear and intense. The ghastly aestheticism can be traced back to the influence by the mysterious witchery tradition of Guangxi as well as the magic in magic-realism of Latin America.