Discussion Mysticism In City Novels Of Jia Pingwa

Mysticism which connected with literature is the background of Chinese traditional culture.Irrationality of mysticism and supernatural makes it one of the important elements of literarycreation. But the novels of Jia PingWa about the city used a large number of mysticism elements,and this irrational element constituted a paradox of modern civilization. Along as commodity ofeconomy development, the city is very different from rural living space, and the natural economyin the majority country has different cultural forms and civilization degree, so the city in a lot ofwriters has always been the pioneer of modern civilization. And in the city theme in the novel,Jia Pingwa made the traditional culture and modern civilization in the same space, exotic spaceand real space developed at the same time, mysterious narrative conveyed the rational thinkingof the two kinds of civilization of the writer. This article attempts to explore the city imagine andcultural choice of JiaPingwa by learning the mysticism in his city theme full-length novels.As a son of the traditional culture, mysticism in the traditional culture has been used as earlyas the vernacular novels. Therefore, this article settles his whole novels about mysticism, andfocus on understanding the meaning of mysticism elements in the city novel. To grasp thepurpose of the writer, discussing the specific connotation and theme in the novel, and thenunderstanding the course of the mysticism appearance. So we can grasp the connotation ofmysticism and the writer’s writing mentality.Jia pingwa has his own style, but not messy. This article points out that mysticism has mainlythree aspects in his novel, the mysterious imagination, legendary figure, mysterious narrative.Through the study on the several aspects, we can understand the culture thinking and philosophythinking of the writer. The writer attemps to look for a way saving the lost people in the moderncivilization and also expresses deep regret for the loss of traditional civilization.In the contradiction of traditional culture and modern civilization, Jia Pingwa has his own cityimagine and cultural choice. We can understand that the writer’s hometown lost from thenarrative attitude. So he always looks for his mental hometown. And this kind of "not found" feeling constructed his own city imagine, and made him keep a sober cognition for traditionalculture and modern civilization. In the vast encirclement of modern civilization, Jia Pingwa isalways in the contradiction, thinking about the way of modern civilization and traditional culture,wandering between tradition and modern.