On By Yan Novel "narrative" Of Violence

Since the beginning of human beings' history, violence always goes side by side with the development of society and the strife of power, and runs through the process of human civilization. Violence in literature and art, aiming to achieve the legalization of the "narrative of violence", has become the externalization of humanity's collective unconscious. For this reason, many literary authors have shown a preference for the narration of violence and obsession, and demonstrated a variety of styles. Yan Lianke is a contemporary writer of China, simple, serious, hard-working and very accomplished. His novels are more concerned about the ordinary people's struggling and confusion of life and death. And they do not rigidly adhere to the form of reality, and extremely dedicate to tell the people's destiny of suffering. After the successful completion of the changes in his works in the 90s, his novels show the unique narrative style of violence.The "narrative of violence" mentioned in this thesis does not only refer to the author's tendency to the descriptions of violence and the descriptions of pure violence in his works, it also refers to the strong impact on people made by the novel's style, language, image and the circumstances, as well as the aesthetic tendency following the novel. This discourse studies the characteristics of narrations of violence in Yan's novels, from both the content and form of his works. That is "narration of violence," including descriptions of violence and the violent narrative form.In the content, Yan Lianke's many works dealing with the daily life are filled with a large number of disease, death, violence, infinite exaggeration and deformation. In his novels, natural and man-made disasters, the lame and blind, pirates of coffins and gravediggers, rape, robbery, killing and other "abnormal" events are rather common. Death, life, suffering, struggle, and power are keywords to the understanding of his works. His descriptions of the violence are in no way inferior to the pioneer novelists' depictions of the bloody violence and meticulous detail. This thesis mainly concentrates on sex violence, the death of violence, self-mutilation and fights.In the form, the narration is the writer's coverage of the text by his full life experiences author of the text of the coverage, and the subjective release of his own, reconstruction and the creation of the lifestyle. Yan Lianke novels shock people greatly with his specially selected narrative skills. His novels often break the traditional narration of the established model, and are well known for the arbitrary nature and initiatives, which forms the writing style of breaking the ways readers want the story to go. Readers unconsciously accept the way the author tells the story. And in its index, we experienced a memorable trip to the aesthetics. This special reading effect is mainly reflected in Yan's successful implementation of the style, language choices and style perspective. Its style is varied and diverse, structure is skillfully set; narrative perspective frequently changes, flexible and diverse; narrative language is exact, precise and skillfully-used(do well in laying out and playing up the violence depiction with fine details; extensive use of metaphor and rhetoric Synaesthesia practices; the ultimate aim of fostering a variety of vocabulary, carnival, showing the power of the narration of violence and the freedom of thinking). With the help of the relevant narration theory, we can clearly see the process that the author controls the readers' psychology step by step. We can also be able to explore the hidden subject after the rich rhetoric skills.In short, Yan Lianke devotes himself to the pursuit of his works' extreme pain, the extreme darkness of human nature, the exposition of the drawbacks of the system, expressing a "critical point of life and death" of the writing. His literary imagination combined with highly targeted social affairs, makes his works full of suffering, incompletion, despair, life and death of reincarnation, fate, anger, conspiracy of human beings and ghosts, dialogues between human beings and dogs, which overcast terrors deeply and soul-stirring. What's more, he applies a new style and language to address the most basic local clinic social reality, sharply and full of impact.Yan Lianke's novels create a great threat to the readers' inner world. The ultimate shock of this assault and violence is eventually recognized as a kind of aesthetics, and has gradually become the aesthetic characteristics of his novels. The exposition of violence in his novels from time to time is an independent literary world, is a unique literary landscape, making up the overall picture and basic background of his "Palou Mountains". This thesis will then try to analyze the reasons for the formation of the "narration of violence", from the viewpoint of power and psychology (the author's experiences during the Cultural Revolution, work as a military writer, and physical pain), and resources for literary reading.Of course, the gradual formation of Yan Lianke's unique narrative style of violence also shows a lot of weaknesses and shortcomings. This narrative strategy wins him a great reputation and also criticism from some critics, such as Lei Da, Wang Yichuan, Ge Hongbing, who have given some fair criticisms and suggestions. Yan Lianke has indicated the probable changes in his late writing after calming down.Regardless of the result, Yan Lianke's practice of creative writing provides a reference and coordinates for contemporary Chinese literature, and its artistic value and aesthetic value should not be underestimated. It should be noted that the narration, analysis and criticism of violence in itself should maintain a high degree of self-vigilance. Only in the case can the criticism of violence not be deformed into critical violence.