The Poetic Quality Of He Liwei's Novels And Comics

In 1984,He Liwei won the "National Excellent Short Story Award"for White Bird.The aesthetic poetry in this novel was highly praised.Later on,he published his first novel collection Town without Story,which showed his pursuit of classical poetry.By the end of 1980s,he started going out of the study and reading the big book—society widely.As a result,he took back his attention to the real life from the distant town,thinking more about the current living conditions of people.The style of his novel has changed.He wrote the water-like life in small towns,aiming at creating the atmosphere and pursuing a kind of restrained sorrow in the early days.And then,he focused on the urban life and historical scars,revealing his deep thinking about modern society and complex human nature in emotional narrative,which showed the modern poetic quality.Furthermore,He Liwei broadened his artistic expression.He drew a large number of comics in his spare time.His literati comics may be based on the current life,humorous and wise,or trace back on his warm childhood,soft and poetic.These comics also showed his poetic quality.Chapter one mainly discusses the construction of He Liwei's classical poetic world.He presents beautiful human nature and primitive life by grasping objects in an aesthetic way.He also takes some measures to create poetic conception as quatrains.For example,he regards the environment as the main body of scenario narrative and uses strange and compound language.Chapter two explores He Liwei's insistent pursuit of beautiful human nature and deep thoughts of life when he is confronted with the plights of life in the secular society.At the same time,he shows the trend of history and the era in the present society,based on his own personal daily memory,so that people can be inspired to think about the nature of history and society.What's more,his collapsible narrative and over-used images also make the text permeate strong subjective emotion and present beautiful sentiment beyond time and space.Chapter three,we focus on literati comics,which is extended from literature.We can grasp his classical and modern poetic quality by analyzing his lyrical and humorous comics.On the one hand,he treated the world in a childlike innocent view,which made the world interesting.He sometimes shows poetic feelings with verses.In addition,the symbolic meaning of the common images in his comics is demonstrated.The profound poetry from the allegorical structure of the works is also discussed in this chapter.Throughout his novels and comics,whether when it gives people the enjoyment of beauty by distinctive poetry,or arouses people's philosophical thinking based on lonely and realistic works,there is a kind of poetic quality in his works all the time.I will rely on intensive reading of the text,comparative study and text cross-cultural study to have a more comprehensive and detailed understand on He Liwei.