Use Of Color And Aesthetic Effect Of Mo Yan’s Novels

Mo Yan standing as an "exotic flower" of contemporary literary world, being ceaseless, and has important influence both at home and abroad. On October11th,2012, The Nobel Prize in Literature2012was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary. The world of his creation makes us reminiscent the fusion of the works of William Faulkner and Garcia Marquez, and at the same time finds a starting point in the Chinese traditional literature and oral literature." Mo Yan is the officially mark of the Chinese literature standing on the world stage.As a famous writer, the critics to his works are also bustling. Overall, the study of color aspect to Mo Yan’s novels is the weaker part compared with the study of its magic, folk standpoint, narrative strategy, image analysis and language features. And color is definitely one of the most prominent features of Mo Yan’s novels. Face to the Mo Yan of "From the horizontal as ridge and the sideway as peak", has different opinion and views. The purpose of this paper is from the wispy angle "color" to find the entry point to Mo Yan’s novels. About this point of view, there are some typical comments, but not come into the "mainstream", color study is still a growing point of Mo Yan’s novels.Color has been stamped the "Mo Yan" label, and becomes colorful, unique. The existing scattered research pay more attention to color of Mo Yan’s novels by impression discusses, lack of depth and breadth. The article adopts the method of close reading of the text, combining a variety of art theory such as the art of color, the color psychology, narratology, and linguistics, etc. Mo Yan’s novels were discussed from different aspects of the use of color and its aesthetic effect. Mainly from the following aspects:First, the use of color in Mo Yan’s novel has its genetic roots, and Mo Yan has formed a unique color view, from the traditional, harmonious, the realistic view of color to the modernism color concept of large contrast, rich wallop and full of impact and tension. From this subtle factors color to highlight the overall artistic characteristics of Mo Yan’s novels, getting spirit in subtlety.Secondly, the heavy and complicated color in Mo Yan’s novel make reader has a sense of pleasure, yet more than that. The tension of color broke the harmonious dream, ease way of art, formed the more desolate emotional expression. Colors are the seemingly small key points, but Mo Yan is using it reconstructed the "real in the heart".Thirdly, mainly from the narrative function of color to discuss color as Mo Yan’s novels’ highlighted element, contains a variety of voice. From the tone, adjust the rhythm, the performance of vanity and symbol polysemy these four aspects to emphasis state the function of color in the novel narrative.Fourthly, color’s extravagance and redye raised people’s feeling. Children’s pure and colorful eyes lead to a poetic imagination of a distant space and time, and with a "fantastic" magic power has become the focus of this paper to state the aesthetic effect of applying color in Mo Yan’s novel.