Reinterpretation Of War

Su Tong’s "Three Lights" is a medium-length novel about war. The absolute positionof the site in humanism, inquiry to individualism collectivism nothingness, againstnational ethics based on life consciousness and the tragic consciousness betweenrevolutionary optimism, completed from deified hero to the hero’s cross for the first time.This paper first chapter first discusses power struggle is the nature of war, encouragingpeople to participate in into the irrational competition. Nationalism is an imaginarycommunity, gradually become a necessary tool of legalization of political power after thewar. Political war power struggle and political legalization exposure, resulting in the lackof humanistic belief. The "three lights" is discussed in the second chapter through the warwritten mildly instead of violently, with graceful and restrained. This novel is permeatedwith rich poetic aesthetic style, saturated with warmth of humanity. War hero exits,present the natural state of individual life. Xiaowan’s perfect humanity was destructed.Bianjin had pursued with nothing after he waked. The people who lived in Quezhungwere indifferent. The third chapter focuses on narrative research, flat gold free perspectiveconvey neurotic style of exquisite life experience. Xiaowan symboled purity, kindness,and persistence of ideal personality. Her death played humanism elegy. A boat, a coffin,and three lamps combined a theme: fell life can only be acquired from the death of peace,and the hope is just a futile pursuit. Contrast in this paper, on the basis of the other warnovels, and combining the past Su Tong’s writing style, the "three lights" in creativethinking and narrative skills is a rare war theme.It should gain a place in the history ofmodern and contemporary literature. Not only did The "three lights" on alternativedefinitions of war enrich the view,but also it provided another kind of deep thinking aboutthe history for us.