The End Of The Century Elegy And Mourning Sing

Jia Pingwa is a rare talent who has the astonishing creation energy in the contemporary literary arena of China .At the beginning of the 90's, he created "The Deserted City" which described the course of a group of humanistic intellectuals' spirits to disintegrate greatly and the morals to perish in the collision of the east and the west culture . It not only promulgated the social focus of infection but also had the abnormal resistance to the modern metropolis civilization and also had the current intellectual's struggling with mind in social eddy, at the same time, it had the withering personality critique to the humanistic intellectuals. This is a dismal century's end elegy. At the same time , it is also a tune that has the deep cultural connotation , accompanied by the "Xun" sound .The purpose of "The Deserted City" is to describe the Chinese in the end of the century, transmits a kind of view of the century's end . "The Deserted City" has abandoned as the traditional carrier, but decadent and declining have not discarded along with it in the traditional culture, it's still affecting people's idea and behavior. This traditional decadent and declining struck with the modern civilization, therefore, as the representative Zhuangzhidie is "the disabled person". It is impossible that the traditional ideal consciousness, together with its important social system , is buried in the grave and cleared into the historical garbage. It is valuable that it promulgated the rule. Through the moral decay of humanistic intellectuals and the exposition of the social ugly phenomenon in urban culture , the text proposes the importance of cultural reforming when the society was transferring , it's an elegy in the end of the century.