Analysis On The Depiction Of Daily Life In The Countryside Of Local Novels In The New Century

Local novels and its conception has formed its unique literary outlook, occupying the important status in the history of modern Chinese literature after experiencing nearly a century of development and evolution since the1920s. In one sense, we may say that the history of local novel is a half of the modern literature history. With the process of "urban-rural integration" goes deeper and the situation of binary increasingly sharp, the rural society which was originally closed is under attack from city civilization mixed with values such as the mammonism, consumerism, pragmatism, utilitarianism and individualism. Traditional customs and rituals are weakened and the supreme country power is increasingly deformity as a result of the dual impact of political system and economic system. Plain and simple interpersonal relationship become twisted and evil before the commodity economy and the market ecomomy. It is the depiction of the new changes in the rural society by writers that form the creative performance of local novel in the new century.Here,“the depiction of daily life in the countryside of local novels in the new century” refers to local novels which perform closely to daily life in the countryside with narrative scence of country since2000. With the rising tide of migrant workers into the city and changes of man-land relationship, traditional morality and rural custom have gradually diffused since the new century. Writers either directly depict the huge changes of the country, or reminisce about the past memories and rural customs, building a spiritual home to perform concern of country society’s impending demise through the imagination when face new country experience. Second, local novels in the new century profoundly reveal that country power gradually infiltrate into people’s daily life. Under the dual oppression of both bureaucratic system and economic system, the country power is dissimilated to drugs threatening the precarious rural society. Under the background of “left-behind/return”, writes display characterization and rural ethics in ways such as the alienation and indifference between couples, the abandon and alone between family members, rely on each other between left-behind old people and children, the bully and insult of big surname family to a small one and the despise and reject of left-behind people to returned women.Overrall, local novels in the new century often depict rural daily life through a village as the center to show original rural daily life. The villages have cultural symbolic meanings in novels exprssing the writers’human concern and cultural reflection to country world. However, local novels in the new century have some problems such as stylized characters, patterned story structure and lacking in thedepth of thinking as well. At the same time, the value hobble of writers and the narrative diaphragm to the present country lead the elevation of integral creation connotation of local novels.