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"The Inheritance Of Yasunari Kawabata And Franz Kafka"

Posted on:2013-06-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J W GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330371491439Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Yu Hua, the the personal representatives of the avant-garde fiction, his works were translated into many foreign languages and published abroad in recent years. He the won the awards abroad, such as the Italian Grinzne Cavour Prize for Literature and awarded the Knight’s for French literature.Otherwise,he also a contemporary Chinese writer who was influenced by foreign writers, especially Yasunari Kawabata and Franz Kafka.As a starting point of Yu Hua’s essay,this text will find the traces learned from the two masters,to discover the inheritance which Yu Hua inherited.From describing the details,he changed the real of life to the real of spirit, the good and honest figures and the poetic menu to the petty and low figures,bloody menu, by "a style of pretence" during his writing. Recognition of the methods, Yu Hua found the significance of Yasunari Kawabata and Franz Kafka. We can saw that Yu Hua informed his own unique artistic style and spiritual structure by learning and surpassing Yasunari Kawabata’s and Franz Kafka’s literary.Compared with the same period of the pioneer writers, Yu Hua seems to go farther than them, because he holds the belief of "different from himself "and "differents from others", diversity of consciousness is more important than the consciousness of various literary schools,absorbing nutrients from reading,transformed from ordinary readers into a well-known writers.Introduction:In this Part,the review with several references is given on the investigation of the research on Yu Hua’s works, and pointed out that although the study is fruitful, in the level of external influence and acceptance is seemed to be not enough about how Yasunari Kawabata and Franz Kafka influenced Yu Hua, especially lost part of Yu Hua’s writing before1986.Chapter Ⅰ.This part discussed the impact of Yasunari Kawabata on Yu Hua, based on understanding the works of Yasunari Kawabata and the "detailes description" in Yu Hua’s Essays; the good and honest figures;the poetic pictures and "the real of life".Chapter Ⅱ:It’s mainly that Franz Kafka set Yu Hua free from Yasunari Kawabata’s "butcher’s knife",to be seen in the following: the humble character,"a style of pretence"and" the real of spirit" and gave Yu Hua important direction. Chapter ChapterChapter Ⅲ:Explore the turn of Yu Hua’s writing during his literary creation, from the "the real of life" to "the real of spirit",from "warm" to "cold" and to "warm" again,and discuss when begin to turn, how he fills the gap, reflecting which kind of his personal state and the times.Conclusion:Yu Hua makes his efforts to become an aesthetic polyhedron presented in front of the reader, not only learned and imitated from other foreign writers, but also make a breakthrough to be gorgeous with blossom to be mature.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yu Hua, Yasunari Kawabata, Franz Kafka, the real of life, the real of spirit
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