Secrets Along The Way

In Chinese contemporary literary world, Bi Feiyu is a writer succeeded late. He showed up prominently in the literary world in1990s following the brilliance of pioneers, but he didn’t cause a stir at that time. But Bi Feiyu firmly believed that writing was his destiny. After a long-term sedimentation and then bursting out, his writing skills were more and more mature and got more and more attentions. Finally, he occupied a position in contemporary literary world. Bi Feiyu’s works enjoy great popularity and have got awards frequently, for which the main reason is he injects new shining points-allegorical attributes, in his works. The addition of allegorical attributes makes his works show high artistic and ideological value. However, for the moment, only a few researchers have studied his novels from the perspective of allegorical attribute. From this perspective, the paper tries to explore his novels comprehensively to analyze the expressive form, implied meaning and causes of formation of allegorical attributes in his novels, in order to provide a new window from which peoples can understand and study Bi Feiyu and his works better.The paper includes five sections. The section of introduction analyzes different definitions of allegory in the works on allegory study, and on the basis points out the allegorical attribute in the paper means "expressing a deep meaning through a simple story. In other words, behind the superficial storytelling there is another profound meaning such as philosophy or reason." The first chapter states three expressive forms of allegorical attributes in Bi Feiyu’s novels, including allegorical character, allegorical image and allegorical structure. First, the chapter analyzes the living states of three kinds of people, the child image, the insane image and the handicapped image, shaped by the writer in texts, to explain the ponders and reflections the writer intended to express on current social situation and life. Next, by analyzing the isolated island image and mirror image, the chapter reveals the universal cultural environment of human, the illusory nature of human survival and the metaphysical proposition of self cognition. At last, the section makes a deep analysis grasping the wandering structure of Bi Feiyu’s works to explore the deep implication with universal meaning hiding behind the structure. The second chapter mainly interprets the implied meaning of Bi Feiyu’s novels, which is pondering upon the truth of history, inquiring the original meaning of life and looking for a poetical "Utopia". Bi Feiyu has a strong historical complex, but he doesn’t aim to pursue specific historical events when plunging in history; instead, he tries to seek historical experience and atmosphere through history in order to open the historical curtain and reveal the excellent truth of history. Meanwhile, Bi Feiyu is a writer believing in life persistently. His understanding on life is human survival and poetical survival, and his texts externalize his belief. In his texts at different stages, we can deeply feel his spirit dimension in creation:starting from individual life, focusing on human living state persistently in human vision, and inquiring and exploring the original meaning and nature of life rationally. Because of the redemption feelings embedded, he draws a poetical picture of Utopia, trying to find another possibility for existence. The third chapter explores the causes for the allegorical attributes of his novels internally and externally. The external cause is the internalization of childhood memories and the nurture of foreign and domestic classical literatures; the internal cause is his unique creation thinking. The combined action of the three factors creates the allegorical attributes in his novels. Basing on a summary of the whole paper, the final conclusion section points out that Bi Feiyu’s novels have unique charms and have found favors in many readers and researchers’ eyes because the novels have unique and distinctive allegorical attributes. Then the section further analyzes the unique features of such allegorical attributes on this basis.