The Comparative Research Of Year,Month,Day And The Old Man And The Sea

Yan Lianke’s Year,Month and Day,has been reviewed that it has resemblance to the Old Man and the Sea at the beginning of publication.However,there is no further research.Faced with the enquiries whether there is any relationship between two novels,the writer denied it.But in the meantime,he revealed that the originality in Year,Month and Day is deficient unconsciously.The composing background of Year,Month and Day and Yan Lianke’s familiarity with the Old Man and the Sea,both of them provide the precondition for verifying two novel’s relations hip.Using the method of textual to contrast two novels,we find that there are some parallels between them.The commonalities reflect on the plot setting,narration and the arrangement of minor elements as well.The influence of the Old Man and the Sea on Yan Lianke’s creations also lies in Flying Years in Sunlight which was produced over the same period with the Year,Month and Day.The Old Man and the Sea and Year,Month and Day differ greatly in style and cultural connotations.All of those reveal the limitations of influence.As a transition period’s work,the Year,Month and Day not only learns the experience of other countries for reference while still exhibits the color of localization.The math,Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains and the memory of the era also have impacts on this novel.The writer’s attitude to the land and the peasant changes in this novel as well.By comparative study on these two novels,we know the mechanism of writ ing about the Year,Month and Day,and also offer research ideas to study Yan Lianke’s other creations.