Trek In The History Of The Soul

Zhang Wei and Gabriel Garcla Marquez, the authors of SeptemberFable and One Hundred Years Of Solitude break through the creativeconcept of the traditional historical novel, abandon the inherent thinkingpatterns, and reflect on history with original idea. They make every effortto create a completely imaginative world. In this mythical world, that isfrom "Garden of Eden" to "Revelation", the two writers describe thecomplicated history, project their thinking about the traditional culture,and concern about the redeeming meaning of the mankind. So, takinghistory as acorres ponding point, explaining the relation among history,Myth and life is a good understanding.The first chapter is mainly from the idea of "the history is the text"to explain the author's understanding of the history. In the novels, ZhangWei and Gabriel Garcla Marquez use the reality and the mind of thecharacter to construct their same conception of history: The historydevelops in the civilized conflict, the history demonstrates in the mind ofthe character.The second chapter is from the aspect of narrative skill to discusshow the two writers realize "the history is the text" through the buildingof the mythical world. As a result of the use of the non- rational myth, themyth time, as well as the commonly used exaggerating and the symbolictechnique, the two novels are made to be filled with one kind of periodiccirculation repeated with the mysterious atmosphere of the original shape,causing the readers have the feeling of "apparently so but actually not, notbut is", acquire one kind of feeling that was once acquainted with butunfamiliar, and thus arise to search for the root and trace the desire ofthe author's true meaning.The third chapter mainly discusses that Zhang Wei and GabrielGarcla Marquez complete to return to the traditional culture and projecttheir thought about the life in their speech about the history. While ZhangWei looks for the significance of the life and morals in the artistic worldwhere the praising of the game essence of the life and the exposing of the immorality of the modem life coexist; Gabriel Garcla Marquez throwshimself in the stream of the times, thinks deeply about the destiny of theLatin America and the way out of the mankind in the modern society, andbecomes the spokesman of the rational time.