The Acceptance And Alienation Of Hometown Narrative

American writer William Faulkner build its "Yoknapatawpha descent" literary reputation and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in1949,63years later, Chinese writer Mo Yan who good at writing hometown,create a "high-density rural Northeast," the Kingdom of the literature also won the Nobel Prize for Literature. As a famous Chinese writers of the twentieth century, Mo Yan whose creation by western literary influence since the1980s to the rise of a series of local works, filled with "nostalgia" and "resentment village" complex emotions, is classified as "Roots" Literature writer. In addressing the Western modernist writers when their own creative influence, Mo Yan called Faulkner and Marquez as "two searing blast." Mo Yan took a good example by American author William Faulkner when he was composing his great works, and this situation is based on a very similar but complicated emotion toward their hometown:a emotion mixed both hatred and deep love. Because of this emotion, there are a lot of similarities in their works:they both focused on some kind of culture tradition of the hometown; they both like to parade stories about big families systems; and they both talked not only the family stories but also the problems that we all humans are facing. But Mo has his own original creativity:unlike Faulkner who always talked about a heroic leader who ruled a big family, Mo pays more attention to the vitality of characters. As a consequence, Mo’s characters are more daring and powerful, they are unscarred and even some kind of evil; Faulkner created nearly no female heroin, but there are a lot of them found in Mo’s works. And the most important is:Mo has a better explanation of the declining of big families. Mo believes it is not because of the social environment change like Faulkner’s opinion, but the nature rule that the time and the Mother Nature will defeat every extraordinary ones and make everything back to normal. The greatness of heroes will not last.