Yan Geling Novel Human Nature Theme

Yan Geling is a famous prolific and multi-award new immigrant writer on nowadays. Shewrote so many novels because that her tortuous and complex life experiences achieve her varietycreative themes and her hard working. She gets a lot reward because that human nature is theconstant theme of her novels and she reveals a rich and deep human nature connotation.Yan Geling experienced the Cultural Revolution in her childhood; she did a war reporterwhen she was young, she went to another country in her middle age, in her tortuous and rich lifeexperiences, she tasted the ups and downs of life and saw good and evil, beauty and ugliness ofhuman nature. The domestic and overseas double life experiences let she use a Chinese andwestern cultural perspective to re-examine the life, think about the life and concern about thehuman nature. She thinks that when people in a kind of "extreme" environment, his behavior willreveal the human nature deeper. When people are forced to hopeless situation, the nature thingsthat she wants to reveal will be appeared. She dares to face the gross and ugly human nature. Herdepiction about aggressor’s heinous magic behavior and the life’s materialized form like grassand insects in precarious war environment shocked us, she also vividly showed all kinds ofvariations of human nature in the black and white reversal absurd Cultural Revolution years,besides, she exhaustively described the proscriptive human nature in exotic dilemma. AlthoughYan Geling saw all the ugly human nature, she wasn’t disappointed to the life and human nature.In her novels, there is warm human nature radiance even in the sordid and filthy world, and thisradiance primarily from the underlying female characters she cared. These effeminate womenalways use the most simple and nature life to meet the historical turmoil and the destiny of blow,the reverence for life, fortitude, kindness, tolerance, sacrifice for others, these noble qualities ofhuman nature add to a trace of warm color for the decadent world.There is no forever villain in Yan Geling’s novels. In her view, sometimes the human naturemay lose or alienate, but it doesn’t have thorough non-redemption. The human nature can finallygo to health and improve by self-redemption and the redemption from others, so that it canachieve her pursuit of sticking to the most honest and real human nature and her ideal that thehuman and animals can get along well with each other.To reflect the life and reveal the human nature is the subject of Yan Geling’s creation. Thewell-known overseas literary critic Chen Ruilin said “The highest expression of literature is toreveal the human nature.” Yan Geling’s deep excavation and the thorough reveal to the humannature shock our heart. It is well-deserved that she is called a new immigrant writer who “spiesthe human nature so deep and writes novels so mature” by the critics.