On The Absurdity Of Zhu Shanpo's Novels

As one of "the Later Three Musketeers of Guangxi",Zhu Shanpo is a writer with unique style,whose novels have a wide range of themes and rich connotation.There are many highlights in many aspects of his novels,including the narrative styles,creative skills,etc.Among them,the strong absurd flavor is refreshing,which adds a unique charm to his novels.His works focus on the underclass life,social pressure,anxiety disorder,paranoid,mental patients,and other subjects.The plots of his works are strange and eccentric and the story contents are full of dramatic tension.By means of many narrative techniques,such as irony,exaggeration,repetition,and narrative entrapment,his works create a series of comic,funny,sad,and helpless images of the little characters in the underclass,expose the dark corners of the society as well as the maladies of the era,and appeal the return of the human dignity and value of the underclass people as well as the gradual loss of the human nature and spirit in modern society.The text of his novels criticizes various unfair phenomena of the society.Meanwhile,it expresses the reflection of the era and the deep concern of the underclass with the profound implication and ideological value.Simultaneously,it also has a strong realistic concern and unique literary value.Starting from a series of absurd features contained in Zhu Shanpo's novels,this thesis briefly analyzes the theme and implication of his novels.Meanwhile,it deeply dissects the revelation and reflection of the dark angle of society and the maladies of the era hidden behind the absurd features as well as the desire and appeal for the spiritual return and the implementation of the human dignity of the underclass people behind the writing of the human nature.The main body of this thesis mainly focuses on four aspects of Zhu Shanpo's absurd writing,including the theme,the character image,the structure,and the ethical value.Taking his "Shanpo-style" absurd writing as a cutting point,this thesis makes an attempt to dissect his absurdity writing so as to reveal the poetic emotionbehind his absurdity as well as the deep thinking and genuine concern to the era,the society,and the human nature.