From "Idol" Writer To Young Writer-A Study On Zhang Yueran's Novel Creation

Zhang Yueran is very compeling in "after 80s" writers. Her creation has been a concern of critics, also won the majority of reader's and critics agree.It's undeniably that commercial operation is an important factor of zhang yueran's overnight success, but compared with other "after 80 s" writers, Zhang fueran determined to be a "young writer" since the beginning of fame, hope to accept the inspection from the "pure literature", this kind of self set and expectations influenced her later creation deeply. During the three typical representative of "after 80s" writers, Guo Jingming becomes a gorgeous fashion cultural businessman, Han Han takes the road of the movie director after becoming a professional race car driver, only Zhang Yueran gives up chasing fame and fortune and works diligently in the literary position. Since her debut,her creation has experienced the transformation from the business context of the "idol" writers to the transformation of the young writer, with the novel "The Oath", she got rid of the group of "after 80s" writers which is over-commercialization of packaging in 2006, she starts to pay close attention to the survival status about 80s generation after 2008 in her novel, and the novel perspective began to move toward "socialized."This article adopts the method of close reading, and takes 2008 as the time limit to comparative anaysis the theme, narrative and language of Zhang Yueran's novel so as to explain the transformation of her novel creation comprehensively and systematically by combined with a large number of literatures that works on Zhang Yueran's novels and deeply read her novels which were pulished.The theme of Zhang Yueran's early novel is purely emotional theme, the single selection and theme was wrote again and again, even expand the growth of short articles. Just for the 20 year old author, her early novels must be self duplication on the account of the limited resources of writing have been repeatedly used. Zhang Yueran realized that lack of experiences makes her novel creation in a dilemma, since 2008 the theme of novels changes from single to diversification on the whole, from Indulged in the dream to be concerned about the reality and the tip of novels points on social sensitive topic,and focuses on the present young women's fate by consciously starting from the female perspective, which have greatly increased the abundance of novels'content and ideas.The novel creation of Zhang Yueran argues cruel writing in narrative, adherings to the cruel aesthetic pursuit of art. The cruel narrative in her early novels can be thought of as an unreserved emotional catharsis because she prefered describing the bloody cruel scenes when she shows wound and tears the wound has healed. The cruel narrative in her latest novels gets rid of the bloody and eerie atmosphere, the more is to show the ordinary images in life or tell a bizarre story in a joking tone, it demonstrates the cruelty of life from a more macro perspective with peaceful and lively texts rip the gorgeous coat of life.The language of Zhang Yueran's early novels has been praised but also criticized, commercial writing background and the flying imagination makes her text present cold and cool aesthetic style. After the novel "Menstruation is coming" Zhang Yueran crafts novel language just like a craftsmen in order to overcome the defects of language in early novel creation, which has a significant difference with her previous work.The Concise and accurate, normative rhetoric and life-affirming, colloquial expressions not only retains the vigor of her novel language, but also completes with the recent moderation and gentle style of writing, it reveals Zhang Yueran reaches a new height of language skills.As a young writer who is still growing, Zhang Yueran's novel creation is inevitably influenced by the impact of age and her works will maintain the characteristics of diversification in a long period time. However, she always insists on pursuit of meaning in personal expression and concerns about the reality and the survival, and she holds extremely cautious and responsible attitude in novel creation, these provide a positive energy paradigm for the benign development of contemporary literature. We have reasons to believe that a young writer who is trying to imrove herself and full of social responsibility to the social reality will be full of infinite possibilities on her road of novel creation and create more profound novels in the future.