The Return Of Spiritual Home

In making a general observation of the history of Chinese and Western literature, the American writer Faulkner shows the contemporary effect to roots-seeking literature in Chinese. As the leading figure of western modernism literature, Faulkner is expert in telling story by excellent narrative techniques, besides, he structures a fictitious Yoknapatawpha world, which making up the body of his all works. After eighty years, in the text of the roots-seeking novels, we can find the trace of influence from Faulkner's novels. Not only do they learn Faulkner's narrative art, enjoying the pleasure of changing the point of view and confusing the time sequence in their novels, but also they penetrates into inherence of Faulkner's works, trying to structure a place of their own, in these writers, Mo Yan, Su Tong, Jia Pingwa are representative figures. During transitional era, for the sake of relieving people's spirit pain, the two sides of writers attempt to pursue the spirit home in the literature. From narrative art to literature inherence, the roots-seeking writers continuing absorbing the essence from Faulkner's works. In this process of influence and reception, Chinese roots-seeking writers show their innovation, but there is also some misreading.The thesis intend to focus on the novels of Faulkner and roots-seeking writers, discussing how Faulkner shows influence to roots-seeking writers by the method of parallel research and the influence research, including three point of reason, expression and valuation of phenomenon of influence. This refracts the complicated connection of Western modernist literature and Chinese contemporary literature.