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On The "Consciousiess Of Life" In Pasternak's Work

Posted on:2019-01-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330566959783Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Boris Pasternak(1890-1960),as one of Russia's the most famous writers in the 20 th century,he is a unique genius who got lots of attention of the literary world in the early creation due to innovate Russian poetry.His first collection of poems “The Double Star in the Cloud”,expresses the author's preliminary exploration of religion,philosophy,nature and love.The poetry anthology “Life,My sister” takes the unique artistic view—the human and the nature of the unity of the author and the life of the same joys and suffering and the same way with others.After the 1930 s,Pasternak began to write essays,such as “The First Experience”,“The Childhood of Liuvilles” and “The Lines of Apelles”.In all of his works of novel,as the most outstanding works of “The Doctor Zhivago”,it not only expressed the historical flood of people the true state of survival and life experience,and through three kinds of art forms such as poetry,prose and novels showed the author superb artistic techniques and the strong consciousness of life.The Swedish academy of sciences awarded the Pasternak the Nobel Prize for literature,and highly commend him for "in the field of modern lyric poetry and great Russian narrative literary tradition major accomplishment.With the western philosophy of the late 19 th century and the beginning of the 20 th century,the western modern life philosophy has gradually become the mainstream philosophy.Among them,the stretching theory of the French irrationalist philosopher Henry Bergson pushed forward the development of life philosophy.His works include “The Creation of Evolution”,“The Research of Intuitive Consciousness”,“Material and Memory”,etc.The study of literature from the perspective of life consciousness influenced by this philosophical school,which has become an inevitable trend of the development of literature.The consciousness of life is the most basic consciousness of human beings,its perception and understanding of the existence of self,as well as the concern and exploration of the meaning of human life on this basis.From the life experience and perception of the author's subject,it is the research clue,which is to reflect the society's evolution into the attention to the subject in the literary creation activities.At the same time,it is also emphasized that literature is the key to solve the riddle of life and life.Pasternak as a poet,he is always from one side of life perception,with innocent eyes and abundant imagination to the outside world(nature and human society)formed a special emotional connection,and wrote a beautiful song of life.This thesis is composed of the following three chapters: Chapter one it expounds the modern western philosophy of life and it's innovation of literary research perspectives-life dimension of literature and Perthgateway,the creation of life consciousness.That is,from the author's historical and cultural background,personal growth experience and creation of consanguineous relationship between writer and rich emotional experience,etc.It shows the writers unique creation experience around life.Chapter two,the consciousness of life is analyzed.It mainly includes the life implication in the language style and the life symbol in the literary image.Poetic as his unique language style,in addition to poetry,Pasternak's prose with language style of the novel also tend to strong feelings projected perfusion with authors and permeated with thick life breath.Therefore,the natural images,material phenomena and characters of the works have the symbolic meaning of life.At the same time,the symbolic representation of these images expresses the author's life perception of fate,loneliness and beyond suffering.Chapter three it discusses the meaning of life consciousness in Pasternak's creation.It includes the attention to individual life,the answer to the riddle of life and the sublimation of the meaning of man in literature and society.The author's unique insight into death,resurrection and eternal life has raised the significance of human to a certain height.
Keywords/Search Tags:Pasternak, life consciousness, life philosophy, image, life symbol
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