On Carnivalization In The Condemnation Novels Of Li Boyuan

Li Boyuan takes literary criticism as an essential way to reveal all kinds of socialgovernance issues and rotten dark officialdom and exposure all ridiculousphenomenon in the late Qing Dynasty. In his novels, he took a playful way to writethings that should have been convicted, and accused the injustice of things. Hisunrestrained in vent directly frankly subversive carnival brushwork strokes to writethe overthrow of the late Qing order.Show readers a bizarre officialdom social,relentlessly disclose a power of chaos officialdom and behavior anomie of officials.Describes ethics moral corruption and daily life, refers to the transition of thetraditional custom. Show us a strange and weird carnival world.Li Boyuan follows the concept of the novel creation of Liang Qichao’s pursuit of"the utilitarian and practical" to innovate novel form. His new condemnation novel isbreaking the habitual style of the novel except for the Song and Yuan Dynastyvernacular satirical novel, and learning the style of western novels. In his works, heused to degenerate and repetitive revelry brushwork to arrange the plot in order torealize the effect of comical satire. In terms of image-building, he emphaticallyfocusing on showing off bizarre characters between the old and the new. In terms oflanguage, his extensive use of hyperbole and deliberate misuse of language, such asbanter, etc. This shows that his novels with some of the properties of carnivalliterature.Li Boyuan uses a carnival brushwork to describe the crazy world, embodies theideals of his mind to change the ancient China’s status quo. He is profoundlydissatisfied with the government’s inaction in the late Qing dynasty. So his publiccriticism of "official" corruption is actually hidden the literati’s earnest hope that thegovernment officials reflection of the political situation and to reform it. But also apure and fresh air of officialdom. On his creative concept, Li Boyuan deeplyinfluenced by Liang Qichao’s "Novel Revolution" to create realistic type of fiction touncover the truth officialdom and society and achieve the "new novel" enlightenmentfunction. And Li Boyuan as a conscientious responsible intellectuals during thetransitional period, with the novel depicts of bizarre phenomenon when the modernwestern civilization in ancient China, in which also launched his imagination on thedevelopment prospects of modern Western civilization in China: A utopian dreams of"wealth, rights and freedoms" come true. And this kind of utopian thought embodies the spirit of carnival of alternating the old world.