Liu Zhenyun's New Historical Novel Theory

In the early 1990's,the novel creation of Liu zhenyun changes from the "new realism" to "new history" and he has a completely new interpretation to the history which comes from his personal life experience and the experience of mind.Especially in the three "home series" : "Home world yellow","Stories Tracked down in the Hometown","Home side and the flowers ",he pursuits and reshapes the history,opening the decryption trip of history that takes home as cornerstone.In this paper,I try to show the text world of Liu zhenyun's new historical novels and the spirit of deep implication from the creation reason of his new historical novels,historical idea,humanity care and the narrative pattern four aspects,which takes the “home series”for example.In the first chapter,I discuss the creation reason why Liu changes to the new historical novels from the following three aspects: First is the writer's indelible memories,he lives in countryside since the childhood,and what he had seen and heard comes in his memories and also provides rich material for his creation;Second is the product of The era context,which deeply influences Liu zhenyun's new historical novels,with the development of the society,the creation of literature environment and creation mode changes,when many writers are on the road of creative exploration,Liu zhenyun also give up the creation of “new realistic novels”,change to focus on history;Three is inspired foreign literature ideological trend,which has the influence of postmodernism and the promotion of historicism.In the second chapter,I discuss the new version of history from Liu zhenyun's new historical novels in the following three aspects: One is the subversion of hero history,Liu zhenyun changes the hero images of past historical novel,deeply excavate the revolutionary heroes and historical heroes' another side;on the other side is the history of the circulating,Liu zhenyun's history in the novels is no progress or development,it is in the circulation state,in this state the power and character is in continuous loop,and the history becomes repeated activities that has no substantive progress;Three is the history of the contingency,Liu zhenyun try to highlight the contingency factors of history in order to weaken the historical of inevitability,contingency is the key factors of birth and death,at the same time,it influences the choices in the revolutionary road,and the development of the revolutionary events also.In the third chapter,I discuss the humanity care from Liu zhenyun's new historical novels in the following three aspects.First is the understanding of the human nature,Liu zhenyun as a great writer who has deep awakening consciousness,uses his life experience and strong social sense of responsibility,with his keen insight on the depth of human nature to analyze,interpreting the ugly factors existing inhuman nature.Second is the writing of ugly human nature,Liu zhenyun's deeply understanding of the ugly human nature enriches his handwriting on ugly human nature,in his novels the servility is described,the emotional loss caused by humanity has also been highlighted;Third is the meaning and limitations of human nature writing,Liu zhenyun is aimed to awaken humanity in human nature and the true,the good,the beautiful to return through writing the ugly human nature,at the same time,he also wants to give some warnings to today's society.Although Liu zhenyun's writing is of positive significance to human nature,but there are also some limitations in his writing,he amplifies ugly and evil of human nature,but ignores the beauty and goodness of human nature.the scale of the imbalances,may give a negative impact on the readers,but also can make it trapped in beautiful swamp.In the fourth chapter,I discuss narrative mode in Liu zhenyun's new historical novel,which includes the following three parts.First is the indifferent narrative to death,this mainly displays in the deep memory of death,death way of rendering,and the focus on survival in the death narrative;Second is the diversity of the discourse,the author uses multi-type mix and playful type of language in the narrative words to test and thus forms an unique language shape;Third is the folk narrative,Liu zhenyun abandons the grand narrative,and use folk memory to narrate,at the same time,he uses fiction and imagination in the narration,creating a unique form of folk history.