Mo Yan And Roots Literature

This thesis includes two chapters.One chapter is. "root-seeking"literature and Mo Van's culture rethinking. "Root-seeking" literature was a current of thoughts which was properous in the middle of 1980s.lt was in this period that MoYan made his name for himself. MoYan's creation met the literary purpose. There were two aspects to discuss:one seeking root to trace origins, "root-seeking" literature was devided into two stages. The earlier stages in accordance with the theories declaration of the creators-taking "root-seeking" literature as their main purpose, to look for it from the national traditional culture's "excellent root". When the writers made a further study of traditional culture ,they confronted flaws of the unrevealed folk customs. Consequently, there appeared a spontaneous demarcation between earlier "root-seeking" literature and the later stage. The writers found much more flaws of the traditional culture in an inevitable request caused by this was still to carry on the missions of sholars of May 4th to enlightern citizens, to retake the weapon of the culture critique to expose the inveterate drawbacks of the tradtional culture and ill nature of the citizens. So as to achieve the purpose of eradictation. Two, Anote of the big chorus inside. MoYan's creation met the pursue of the "root-seeking" literature, of which the connotation can be discussed according to two aspects :one, The feathers of regional culture, one outstanding feathe of this kind of literature. MoYan was unwilling to fall behind, so that he created a literature kingdom named "East-north country of GaoMi", then he enlarged this kingdom in his production as a result he built up his own firm literature case.Two, The expression of works' topics -the topics of vitality. In his works, concerning more about anti-culture in folk society rather than the staudard traditional culture ,he went deep into the most primitive level food and sex-the human's disposition and desire to exist basically. He refmded a topic of vitality directl yand developed the material appearance of life extrencely. The usual moral evaluation disappeared here, the primitive desire and request of life became theoverwhelming standard instead. According to the first topic came out the topic of culture critique, The depression from the inveterate drawbacks of traditional cultures on the nature of human and independent characteristic would result in the resistance of the inner mechanism of life by all means with no doubt, these two topics made MoYan's works distictive. His close foundamental attention to the deeper of the culture level went to an important literatural "question-setting" automatically.The other chapter. MoYan and the deepth pattern of "root-seeking" literature in the later state. Generalists said that being as a kind of hidden literary current of thoughts, the "root-seeking" literature did not disappear. Large numbers of writers proved this in their works in the 1990s.MoYan also confirmed this undoubtedly by publishing his two great works, the Plump Breast and Rich Stern ,the Sin of Sandalwoodsince in the 1990s.This was discussed in three aspects, one, criticising the absued reality to exist: approving the national folk culture .Most of his works were enphasized to show the reality to exist in which the spirit was distorted, the actuality that the people are lack of food and ignorant about sex under oppression and his negative attitude from his inner heart towards the exist of tradition and reality. Two, Criticising the nature of citizens. The works carried on the tradition started by the pathbreaker such as LuXun to critisize the ill nature of citizens. The following were analysis. Fist, the continuance of the "man-eating" topic, "man-eating" banqust,the unque find of LuXun, was the nature of China's traditional society and history. Caning LuXun'critical spirit,MoYan paied a close attention to the "man-eating" meaning and the "man-eating" action. Second, self-cheat and self comfort. About "drama",One state power replaced another, so went on, just like a...