On Liu Zhenyun’s Writing Works Of Survival Predicament

starting from A Night in the Melon Land,Liu Zhenyun began his creation career.In 1979,he published his first novel-A Night in the Melon Land(a maiden work)in the magazine of Unnamed Lake when studying in Peking University,which did not cause much attention in the literary circle at that time with extraordinary significance for Liu Zhenyun.Since then,Liu Zhenyun began his own creation way,creating a series of short stories,such as the Curtain Rolled by Water,Moonlight,on the River,the Village Head and Million Household,River Stars and so on.In 1989,he created Unit and A Chicken Feather(the new realism masterpieces)after nearly a decade of imitation.After 1991,Liu Zhenyun created a series of long hometown-theme novels,including Hometown Yellow Flowers,Hometown Spread and Hometown Face and Flowers.Since the new century,Liu Zhenyun’s creation was becoming more and more mature,such as Mobile Phone,My name is Liu Yuejin and other novels,and in 2011 its novel One Sentence is Equal to Ten Thousand Sentences won Mao Dun Literature Award.Liu Zhenyun’s writing process reflects his thinking process of the world and his life from shallow to deep,from surface to center and from appearance to essence,in which he gradually formed his own systematic understanding of the predicament of the times and the individual.From the perspective of survival predicament,this paper attempts to find out how Liu Zhenyun gradually grasps the core of world and life from the deepening of thought to try to save mankind in trouble.This paper is divided into three chapters,as follows:The first chapter is used to talk about the survival predicament’s squeeze for people.In his early novels,the survival circumstances are highlighted in the state of material deprivation.The real thinking of human spirit will start from newrealism series,and become mature in talking series and seeking series.Finally,poking the heavy fog of life,Liu Zhenyun tried to find a redemption road for people in trouble.The second chapter talk about Liu Zhenyun’s writing on the predicament from the historical level.With the ability to penetrate the reality and the vision to see through the historical essence,Liu Zhenyun created the hometown trilogy during this period and completed the continuous writing of the hometown history.In the novel,the writer revealed the survival essence of small people in the history background with sharp strokes.In the third chapter,Liu Zhenyun expressed his understanding of the survival predicament from writing way.With non-emotional strokes,Liu Zhenyun depicted the original ecological life in Unit and A Chicken Feather,and described frustration,embarrassment and sink of Kobayashi in the face of naked life truth.In the hometown series,Liu Zhenyun narrated the survival struggle in the absurd situation through a laughing and playing way.