Xu Xiaobin’ Novels And The Holy Bible

Xu Xiaobin is an individualistic writer.Her fiction has Highly personal characteristics and Knowledge capacity of the novel is very large, involving multiple disciplines. From the perspective of the religious elements in Xu Xiaobin’s novels, she blends in various religious cultural factors in many works, including Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism. In this thesis, the author mainly discusses the Christian elements in her novels. Through the comparison of quotations from her novels and the Bible, the author tries to analyze the relation between her novels and the Bible from literature characters, plot structure and image formation, and dig the connotation of religious culture created by Xu Xiaobin’s novels so as to explore the deep meaning of her novels from a new point of view.This thesis will be expounded from five parts.In the introduction part, the author gives a brief summary of the research history and current situation on the works of Xu Xiaobin, and summarizes the researches by the predecessors on the relationship between Christianity and modern and contemporary Chinese literature. At the same time, by referring to the existing results and the discovering the research gap, the author also casts light on the research method and significance of this topic.In chapter1, the author analyzes the recurrence and alienation of the biblical characters in Xu Xiaobin’s works. The ethos and art perception of her female characters outmatch that of the female, and this kind of spiritual prominence is just the color of the prophetic archetypes in the Bible; inside the female experience, Xu Xiaobin exposes mother——the essence of mother right, and lays stress on presenting the shadow archetype of the demon mother. While Salome, an unknown biblical character also triggers her artistic reveries and helps her shape a series of females full of the charm of "evil".In chapter2, the author analyzes the simulation and transformation of biblical plots in Xu Xiaobin’s works. Xu Xiaobin reuses and remodels some typical plots in the Bible, such as the two familiar stories——Cain killed his brother; Paradise Lost. She makes use of the former to write her query on blood relationship and pondering on original sins and spiritual punishment deep in humanity; and she makes uses of the latter to stereoscopically see through various paradoxes between human and nature, and male and female, from which she also reveals the desperation and hope towards human’s social reality and the reality between male and female.In chapter3, the author analyzes the adaptation and reconstruction of biblical images in Xu Xiaobin’s works. This thesis mainly investigates the image of water and the image of Noah’s Ark. Life and death, and salvation and escape are important themes in biblical culture, which are also the concerns of Xu Xiaobin. In her novels, she refers to the symbolic meaning of water and Noah’s Ark in Christianity, and through them, she expresses her unique female experience.In the conclusion part, the author summarizes the viewpoints and demonstration results of the whole thesis, and puts forward his innovation and thinking. The biblical characters, plots and images etc. all arouse the creative inspiration of Xu Xiaobin and she selects the Christian elements to build the full and mysterious atmosphere, corresponding with the secular world in her novels.