Innateness, Simulation And Transcendence: Observation On Mo Yan’s Writing Development Course

A prolific contemporary writer as he is, Mo Yan presents Chinese culture to the world using his distinctive writing technique. Readers always get unique reading experience through Mo Yan’s fiction, and regains the consciousness after laying down the book which reveals a provoking mirthless under the carnival narrative. While exclaiming over the maturity of writing technique of his fictions, the process of his gradually advancing towards perfection shouldn’t be forgotten. Despite that Mo Yan’s early work is classified as introspection literature, readers are already aware of his special talent among contemporary authors which is existing in his blood as well as possessed through his childhood experience. After he has access to the western literature, we could trace growing traits of great master of western literature from his works. He intentionally borrowed writing techniques from great authors, applying to his fiction creation, meanwhile sucked vigor from Chinese tradition literature. Due to his wide ranged learning, his literary creation began to develop unprecedentedly. Creation techniques can be borrowed, while the sapiential thoughts of literature work could only be improved by the writer himself. Along with his growing authoring experience, the sparkles of wisdom have been observed increasingly in his later fictions. Personal endowment, learning and extraction, transcendence of thoughts, they linked with one another which eventually accomplished Mo Yan’s literary idea.