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Comparative Study Of The "Unconventional Life View" In Mo Yan’s And William Faulkner’s Works

Posted on:2015-03-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431485902Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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When it comes to the influence of western modernism writers, Mo Yan, calledFaulkner and Gabriel García Márquez "two hot blast furnace".And Mo Yan said:"I thinkwe are like an ice, if we are too close to it can be forced to melt easily. But the twostylized writer, like opium, once after to absorb, will be highly addictive. They willproduce great magic, attract you to imitate. This is like" one hundred years of solitude,"the gypsies to horse gong more magnets, will absorb a lot of things." William Faulkner’sinfluence on Mo Yan should first be inspired him to write his own "stamps bigger place",to create their own world. Faulkner’s “York napa county tower " inspired "horse gongtown" of Gabriel García Márquez also brings the "kingdom of Gao Mi northeasttownship" Mo Yan. Mo Yan and Faulkner have many aspects of comparable in novelsthan the two live in different age and region, by the different culture edification of writersin teenage life, especially in a path to literary creation has a decisive role has strikinglysimilar life experiences. Faulkner’s stamps on his big home town of town of Jeff wasborn, to obtain a passage to the world, Faulkner invented a York napa county tower innorthern Mississippi county, people call these works of William Faulkner "lineage napatower of york law". The "lineage", the novel kingdom is not just the local history andculture, the true portrayal of reality, it is not only the general vernacular literature,American southern literature, but also the performance of the universal human nature andhuman destiny."Gao Mi northeast township", Mo Yan creates literary kingdom is ofFaulkner’s "york napa tower lineage", he also describes the hometown from start totoday’s historical changes, Gao Mi northeast township people’s multiple historical periodof the life got art performance. Faulkner’s concept of historical time is to look to the past,looked deep into history. His works,"the past" is often the overriding factor, Mo Yan alsohas looked back the history of the sense of time. His sense of historical time and itscreation of the original vitality theme is complementary to each other, and the vitalitytheme of Mo Yan’s novels contain a profound civilization criticism subject, he willcivilization against the rest of life, see it as a repressive sexual mechanism, and thusfound living predicament of modern people generally. There are both unconventional life views on human existence predicament.William Faulkner in exploration and in the formof the novel art experiment in multi-perspective narrative, interior monologue and streamof consciousness, spatio-temporal crisscross, symbols, etc., the use of skills. Mo Yan’snovel also use lots of the multi-angle narration, interior monologue and stream ofconsciousness technique. William Faulkner and Mo Yan are trying to excavate theuniversal theme in their own "one mu three distribute land", but in their own world, thereare still differences.
Keywords/Search Tags:Hometown, Background, Childhood, Unconventional life view, Living predicament
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