| The novels in the 1990s demonstrate an unprecedented sumptuous situation, a series of excellent novels are quite concerned by everybody, such as " Deserted city " , " Bai Luyuan " , " The song of everlasting sorrow " , " A kind of punishment with sandalwood " , " The experience of selling blood by Xu Sanguan " ,and so on . These novels which obtain brilliant achievements are not a chance. While seeking, I find a lot of works returning to traditional narrative, no matter from practice, from the theory and logic. The writers have drawn lessons from the tradition of the old novels conscientiously and unconsciously. From the point of view of literary form, "The Four Masterworks " are actually embryonic models of the Chinese novel, but they are very casual when being used by others in the 1990s , just perceptual comment. But "The Four Masterworks "have a long history in Chinese literature with unique features, for instance allegory, story, integrality, narrate abundance and tragedy aesthetics. Sometimes the narrative is broken, but the root will not be cut off , because the culture has its inherent continuity. We can see some influence by the four masterworks in "house" written by Ba Jin, but the tradition revitalizes completely in the 1990s. So I choose this point of view to study novels in the 1990s including its inherent power, at the same time pay attention to traditional novel idea and aesthetics. The paper is divided into three parts altogether. First is about destiny and allegory. "God's will" flows in the five masterworks as a kind of idea because it is influenced by the mysterious theory and "circulation theory". For "evolutionism " has been strengthened, this destiny has been changed quickly, but it has resumed again in the 1990s. Such as "Living", "The song of everlasting sorrow", they include some very old ideas and experience, just like traditional narrative about the rich variable and a beautiful girl's unfortunate life. This is not simple involution, but a kind of creative continuity. Second is about folk legend and intact length. The folk which is full of daily occasion means freely; the legend which shows the uncanny has a kind of magical... |
