Historical Consciousness And The Narrative Style Rui Novels

In the contemporary literary world， there is a unique writer named Li Rui， it isvery difficult to delimit him to any genre． Since the publish of “Hou Tu”， Li Ruihas received more and more attention and his creative style is varied， his creating isgetting more and more mature． Li Rui works with "refused to a chorus of" attitude，whether he did the song of crying Lu liang mountains or his pursuit of the ancient cityof Zigong， is a consistent Li Rui works for the understanding of history， reflect the"people" under the irrational history of survival situation． Li Rui’s novels alwayscontain his unique historical consciousness． This paper is based on a close reading ofhis novels， it will extract the author’s historical consciousness， which is existbetween the lines out， and use it as a key to open the door of the writer’s writingskills． Therefore， we can understand the novels well， and get a betterunderstanding of the writer’s thoughts． The paper is divided into the following threeaspects：The first chapter：The historical position and narrative attitude． Li Rui has aunique understanding of history， and put the different understanding of history in hiswork． For Li Rui， the mainstream history worthy of discussion， In Li Rui’sopinion， the orthodox history makes a lot of mistakes， it is unable to meet human’scuriosity os history． So L Rui try to explain what is the real history form every pointof views． In order to keep close to the historical facts， the writer whose literarycreation based on personal experience of history， use the characters to convey theauthor’s unique historical concept， and use virous story to elucidate what the realhistory is． Li Rui with his unique understanding of history brings a new landscape ofhistory to the readers．The second chapter： Description of multiple history， Breaking the directionalthinking method of history monism and describing the irrational history are the ways that the writer present history． Years of Experiences of the Cultural Revolution andeducated youth make Li Rui feels deeply about the”two-way suffering”of China． Hefound the upper case history from anonymous characters and complicated historicaltruth， he discovered the human existence of mental and physical pain which is notallowed to ignore． In the novels， Li Rui turn to write he various embarrasses anddilemmas in historical situation． To the sufferings of the individual survivalexperience accused historical legitimacy， with contingency deconstruction ofhistorical inevitability， perceptual disintegration of historical rationality and deathinquiries the ultimate meaning of history， Thus， history in Li Rui’s books getspresent of different versions， history is no longer necessary for the conclusion， andbecome a unexpected but understandable surprise of a certain result．The third chapter： The unique historical reconstruction． After questioning anddeconstructing history， Li Rui begins to narrative history with the special historicalideas．In the narrative way，Li Rui restore the historical appearance to collage，anduse polyphonic writing methods to make the history back to the historical site， wheremultiple voices are saying and talking． What’s more， the writer use allegoricalnarrative to illustrate human’s real status in history．Therefor，Li Rui has abandonedthe attitude of a cultural elite， and do as a in humanistic intellectual trying his best tounderstand and tolerant human’s suffering， so that he can restore the living truth ofhistory．...