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On The Theme Of "Cultural Homecoming" In Gao Xingjian's Novel Ling Shan

Posted on:2019-04-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z H XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330545960521Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Gao Xingjian is a writer of rich cultural perception,he never stops in the literary road.Both western culture and oriental culture seems cannot meet his demand for spirit rush,his "nothingism ",ideological of utility and "cold literature" let us see the focus and sober of a purely writer.Gao Xingjian himself has a deep insight about the western modernism literature,however Gao Xingjian is not constrained by western literary writing skills,on the contrary,most of his literary works are full of mother culture.In a sense,Gao Xingjian is doing a reasonable artistic imagination of the mother culture in the pursuit of individual spiritual freedom.For him,the western literary technique make it possible to let go of the hands and feet,says all what he thinks,also,provide the possibilities for the presentation of the novel,and the Zhuang Zi and Zen in the Chinese culture and folk culture is a endless spiritual treasure which is his literary life time's nutrients.This contradictory cultural psychology has been fully demonstrated in the novel Ling Shan,which is written in France.Ling Shan is a novel about finding,it tells the story of the individual for ture life.In the characterization of the characters,the author highlights the eternal pursuit of life reality through the depiction of marginalized groups.On the writing skills of different person swaps,it tear the same narrator apart,different narrator has its unique narrative style.In addition,the author abstracts and complicates the novel language by means of colloquial,dialect slang and fragmentary characters,and its ideographic function eventually loses.The novel Ling Shan is difficult and obscure in understanding,and has strong characteristics of modern novels.In content,the novel is emitting a strong Chinese culture,which hides behind the western novel writing skills.Gao Xingjian can use western novel techniques to present a new aspect of Chinese culture,which has some enlightening significance to Chinese contemporary literary.Gao Xingjian looked back upon the native culture to pursue the beauty and truth he considered.
Keywords/Search Tags:Gao Xingjian, literature creating, "Cultural Homecoming", Ling Shan, theme
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