The’ Floting And Home’ Theme In Yan Lianke’s Novels

Yan Lianke is a writer that who concerns about native world, pays attention to the problem of local human society survival circumstances. Many of his works express his deep feelings of land and peasants,and because of his rural origin of writer identity, his writing on the local theme into the common experience of his personal "city" and "village" make the most of his novels, through such a theme "floating and go home".In Yan Lianke’s writing experience, a hero because of the modern rural depression, dilapidated, press of rural political power and the choice to join the army way out of rural, came to the city; but also for collective survival fate, choose to abandon the traditional, go out into the world,"modern civilization" to fight the doomed destiny; some in order to the so-called "development","rich" at the expense of the body and dignity. Finally, the writer makes all of these efforts to cast to waste set in the plot, and emphasized the city civilization and rural civilization different emotional colors in the description."Floating and go home",this is a very paradoxical theme, this kind of phenomenon appears in the novels of Yan Lianke. First of all, it has a great relationship with Yan Lianke’s identity, he joined the army and became a writer of peasant origin and live in the city. In the background of city, in other words,he was in the "modern" context of miss rural. In the hustle and bustle of the city and the "modern", he saw the rural traditional value. But on the other hand, the country is ultimately just a only imagination can’t experience where, after entering the new century,"modern civilization" in a variety of ways, invasion and phagocytosis of rural, rural civilization predicament and crisis of hitherto unknown, rural culture began in the village no longer existed, poetic. So, in this context,"rural" and ultimately can only be a people dream of olive tree, to become the phenomenon of "the Peach Garden", everyone has heard, but had never been attained before. Such an emotional paradox and makes the writer writing hovering between "floating and go home", eventually no way back. But it is such a constantly wandering and searching for, let a person look back towards home, constantly looking for, the purpose and significance of the human original memories...