The Angle Allegorizing Tendency Of The Historical Novel

Produced in the late1980s to the mid-1990s, new historical novel is one of the mostfruitful of Chinese contemporary literature. Whether the Root faction, the avant-gardwriters, or new realism, they will invariably turned the vision into a deep and wideexpanse of historical space, the agitation of the historical changes formed the personalhistory with the subjective and spiritual writing.The new historical novel subvert the traditional concept of history, instead of thetraditional concept of history the new historical novel have the broken, accidental view.History becomes a kind of rhetorical and imagine splicing text, the objective object of asubjective thinking, the history is completely formalized and structured.history of theReal suspicion and unknown adhesion on the mystery of philosophy and religion,Reflections on life, humanity and suffering the fate make the postmodernism reentry intothe cycle of the traditional historical narrative.When the classic historical text carried by the cultural spirit was digested, when thevalue of nothingness has become a problem that can not be overcome, when the fantasy,collage, game have become the narrative history, the new historical novel seems tobecome a allegory. As the Post-modern Context of historical narrative, the writers of thenew historical novel by use the allegory of the way to restore the historical appearance ofa contemporary experience. the "dark" era of the history can not occur in the real world,but the allegory provide theory and direct basis for it. The kind of philosophical thinkingabout life and existence also be revealed by the form of allegory.This paper is divided into four parts: The first part of this paper elaborates theFormation of the allegory writing mode. The formation of any literary phenomenon is notisolated.Lu Xun has opened a precedent for the modern allegory of fiction writing, the"Old Tales Retold"" has become a pioneer of the modern allegory for the historical novel.The contemporary literary scene of the late1980s have a wave from real to allegorychange, so the new historical novel through this creative trend show a vast expanse of thehistorical time and space, at the same time because its historical narrative free to rewritehistory, people fail to grasp their own destiny, so all this formed the fatalism interpretation of history. these factors work together on the formation the allegory of thenew historical novel.The second part of this paper analyses the theme of new historical novel, from thefable of spirit and the fable of the multiple themes to explain the historical narrative.Allegory fiction usually contains more than one topics, however, there will be a dominanttheme throughout it, this is allegory fiction ’s spirit. the new historical novel by theallegorical way set up a spirit tunnel between the text and history to achieve the ultimatequestion of human survival status and life forms. while under the allegorizing spirit,people think about the multiple themes about humanity, culture and the meaning ofexistence.Finally,the survival of the human being expressed through the allegoryimagery.The third part of this paper discusses the allegory of the historical novel’s narrativestrategy. The expression of the narrative theme can not be separated from the text.allegory novel objectively determine the three characteristics in the process of narrativehistory: the absurd story material, the subversion of traditional narrative structure and thepersonalized narrative point of view composed the "narrative steructure". this makeworks showed great tension expression, it is critical for the deep moral allegory.The fourth part of this paper summarizes the pros and cons for the allegorizingtendency of the historical novel. allegorical works focus on excavating the depth of thesoul in theme interpretation,showing a broken in aesthetic representation, which gave anew historical narrative a far-reaching impact. No matter the representation of the currentexperience or the unfamiliar language full of tension, gave readers a profound experiencereading. However, with the fate of endless entanglement and too formal,the aestheticbarriers have become flawed in the Fables process, resulting in the adventure trip of anew historical novel in concept and form, it is not as we expect to go further.