New Discussion About Ou Yangshan's Novels

Life of Ou Yangshan spanned nearly a century and he witnessed the struggle of the Chinese nation history of 20 th century. Wandering life and rich experience nourished his literary vitality.He created a large number of outstanding works with keen insight and unique perspective,recording the personal life experience and national development process. These works have important literary and historical value. This thesis goes out of the before stage of single study and mines the uniqueness of his creation following his life trajectory from more overall and comprehensive perspective.The main content of this thesis includes three chapters. Chapter one tells about the life road of Ou Yangshan and the idea of his creation. This chapter combines his way of life based on the interpretation of the creative ideas that how it to gradually update and finalized, namely at the beginning of the the view of Zhi Qing Literature to revolutionary realism literature view. At the beginning, Ou Yangshan was under the influence of wandering childhood experience, literary environment in the Twentieth Century, guidance of Lu Xun and other multiple factors, and then he formed the view of Zhi Qing Literature. In the after creation, he had understood life more profound. The concept of revolutionary realism became his guiding ideology. This thesis will interpret the unique features of his works by way of grasping the concept of his creation dynamically, and analyze the respective characteristics of the two concepts.Chapter two is discussed in terms of his aesthetic pursuit of revolutionary narrative.The environment of Chinese literary creation is relatively uniform and stable in 1950 s and 1960 s, so the grand historical narrate almost became the same pursuit of writers at that time. Novels in this period generally presented a characteristic of political nature. At this moment, Ou Yangshan still insisted on the aesthetic nature of literature. He put revolutionary struggle under the complex modern city by describing the revolutionary struggle in Guangzhou. And a variety of customs and artistic activities made novels have more life vitality and literary flavor. At the same time, on the one hand, he insisted on writing of affection and love, and always adhered to a kind of emotional pursuit. On the other hand, the excellent psychological description, description of theenvironment, the revolutionary detail depiction and delicate language of the novel works in revolutionary theme made works have delicate dense artistic style.Chapter three discusses the combination of revolution narrate and traditional narrate in the new context. How to express the revolutionary life to the audience in the new era is a question that the writers thought about after the founding of the nation. In the traditional resources, Ou YangShan found the traditional art form which is compatible with the revolutionary content, and they achieved a better integration in the new context. For this kind of fusion, this thesis will discuss from three aspects. Firstly, Characters are traditional, setting Hu Xing as "goddess of mercy" image, He Shouli as a representative of "the concubine of a girl" image and the Yang family as the representative of the "old Chinese" image. Secondly, Ou Yangshan told revolutionary history by family narrative mode from the classical novel which is familiar to the readers to realize the desire of reviewing history. With the exhibition of family history and the shaping of different images, he proved Chinese Communist Party is correct and essential. Lastly,he used the style of traditional Chinese novels with captions for each chapter in a new way. He borrowed narrative skills selectively and put them in accordance with the transformation of the mainstream ideology.Thesis mainly analyses novels of Ou Yangshan from these three aspects, and explains the traits of his novels based on a close reading of the texts. In the conclusion, the author emphasizes the aesthetic character and open vision of Ou Yangshan and the typical significance of his literary creation, and points out the limitations of his writing.