The Illness Writing In Chen Xiwo's Novels

It is an effective research perspective to explain the text from illness.The illness writing is a secret and special expression of literature.Its significance lies in the fact that as a illness of representation and metaphor,its description can reflect the essence and break the illusion of reality.In recent years,the theory of illness metaphor has been widely introduced into the text research,especially to discuss the writer's literary creation.Many scholars use the new perspective of illness metaphor to give the new vitality to academic research.More importantly,Chen Xiwo's novels involve a lot of illness writing.The sex,madness,and violence between the illness are particularly remarkable,and Chen Xiwo thus referred to as the "dark writer".These dark factors are largely responsible for the writing of illness in his novels.Venereal disease,impotence,dysmenorrhea,dementia..It is almost equal to "illness-encyclopedia",and even the novel named "I hurt" directly.It is worth noting that these diseases in the novels are not irrelevant foil,but carrying essential significance.Chen Xiwo turns into a writer of "illness complex".As a result,it has great significance to select illness as the basis to explore the themes and implications in Chen Xiwo's novels.This article will from the following several aspects to investigate the illness writing in Chen Xiwo's novels.The first part mainly discusses how the Japanese literature and culture affected his illness-writing.His aesthetic ideology came to the Japan's traditional emotionalness.In addition,the illness aroused the writer's insight into life and the calm thought.Chen Xiwo has been ill for many years,which inevitably affected his literary creation.Chen Xiwo consciously gave the characters in the novel suitable disease to achieve critical significance.This part will also introduce the illness types and treatments of the patient in Chen Xiwo's novels,so as to have a general overview of Chen Xiwo's illness writing.The second part is the key chapter of this article,it mainly discusses the significance of the illness image in his novels.Taking the body(sexual dispute),ethic(filialness and incest),even the national history and immigration as the three basic orientations,and exploring the interactions between them.The third part:the meaning and deficiency of illness writing in Chen Xiwo's novels.Put him in the background of Chinese contemporary literature,and make a combing of his illness writing.On the one hand,affirming the significance of his writing,and on the other hand,it is also a way of snooping the defect which delaying him to be a better writer.In general,this paper is based on the theory of illness metaphor and combing the close reading of text as the node.Comparing the creation of different writers like Wang Xiaobo,Jia Pingwa,Yan Lianke,Junichiro Tanizaki,Yu Dafu.Through the interaction between theory and text,explain why Chen Xiwo is keen on writing illness,and explore how illness writing carries the theme of the novels.Also evaluate the literary pursuit and creational significance of Chen Xiwo.