Fall Into Dust Lonely

As an expert of oversea Chinese writers, Bai Xianyong has been a focus ofresearchers and critics. The range of his works is from the reproduction of human’shard-to-get emotions, to the presentation of all kinds of human’s living quandaries, andthe history’s changes. They have wholly become from personal experience to humanbeing’s highest level. A lot of researches on Bai Xianyong, but the overall research onBai Xianyong’s novels, especially since the publication of the Bai Xianyong does notsee more. This paper is for this breach, with tragic implication as argument, try from thehistorical and aesthetic perspective on the creation of novels to make a more completedescription.Taking the pain of human’s soul which Bai has been writing as clue; this paperanalyzes and classifies the characters into two parts which are abnormal life andidentity crisis to explore the tragic root of the text. In chapter one the authorsummarizes the conception of tragedy in western and eastern. Then in the secondchapter, it refers to the abnormal mentality. On the basis of the text, the author will dosome researches on Bai’s early works. In these works Bai mainly described all kinds ofhuman’s quandaries. At last, the third chapter is about the identity crisis. As a divide ofBai’s create, this thesis deals with Bai’s later works from three aspects which areidentification, cultural identity. Although studying in American, Bai Xianyong faced thefierce attack of western culture. Then from the nostalgic viewpoint, he wrote manyforeign students and homeless Tabbies. Such an emotional convert made Bai from hischildhood realize the transient life and changeable history. But at last he finds thefusion point in Chinese Buddhism and comes to his literary peak.