The Consciousness Of Loneliness In Liu Zhenyun’s New Century Novel

Loneliness is a common motifs in world’s literature, so many writers described the loneliness in many different ways, including Liu Zhenyun. Ever since the new century, Liu Zhenyun has insisted on writing philosophies with the real life, facing up to the social miserable realities, uncovering the psychological predicaments of individuals in their daily life with his great insight. Moreover, he brings out the simple life philosophies of human being through real survival experiences, which are single case breaking and super psychological predicaments.This thesis was based on the consciousness of loneliness in Liu Zhenyun’s new century novels, and started from the definition of consciousness. It will help to know more inner beauties of consciousness of loneliness through the unique presentation of lonely consciousness in many different literary works, and further introducing will be the writing of loneliness in his new century novels. It was combined with the perspective of existentialism and relevant theory by tidying literary review of Liu Zhenyun and investigating the relevant blank in those studies. After scrutinizing his new century novels, my thesis will study from daily consciousness of loneliness and life course consciousness of loneliness. Through the meaningless and absurd experience, you will know the loneliness is everywhere.On the basis of his novels,this thesis grasps his particular viewpoint of writing the loneliness of Chinese people and explores the historical heritage of the nation’s loneliness. Since the new century, Liu Zhenyun’s exploration and revelation, which are about the individual’s psychological loneliness predicaments, carry his philosophical contemplation on human being’s existential issues, and demonstrate individuals’ mentality in real life.The loneliness in Liu Zhenyun’s novels gives modern people some good ways to understand themselves,to introspect loneliness, and to break through the loneliness wisely, to take on and drive it. The existential philosophy of consciousness of loneliness is an invisible guidance for us to decide how to live in contemporary society.The humanistic care towards the lower-class people’s psychological exploration in his novels highlights his courage to face the reality as well as his ambition on literature. It was the aesthetic significance and social value in Liu Zhenyun’s writing of consciousness of loneliness.Through the exploration and analysis of consciousness of loneliness in Liu Zhenyun’s new century novels, this thesis gains more cultural connotation from his novels. The further investigations of the aesthetic value in his works will encourage usto think deeply about the contemporary Chinese people’s living predicaments and psychological situation.