On The Continuation And Development Of Mo Bai's Novels To The Avant-garde Narration In The 1980s

"Avant-garde literature" is a relatively macroscopic concept.The avant-garde literature to be discussed in the paper refers to the literature with experimental form around 1986.It focuses on text experiment,highlights narrative revolution,language experiment and other creative elements,and tries to dilute the influence and restriction of ideology on creation.In a sense,the avant-garde literature in the 1980 s was a narrative revolution,which strongly promoted literary innovation.The high consciousness of the text form was the innate advantage of avant-garde literature,but the decontextualized writing also caused the difficulty of text meaning construction and the alienation of readers.If the avant-garde literature's escape from social reality in the 1980 s was an inevitable cultural choice in order to maintain the ontological nature of literature,it is also surprising that after the 1990 s,in the face of new social and cultural context,avant-garde literature made a forced landing in the real world.In terms of the long-term development of avant-garde literature,the distance between the form exploration and traditional realism of the text is not a step away.There is a broad area between the two.This middle zone is ambiguous,complex,difficult to grasp,interesting and meaningful.It contains both the valuable experience of literature experiments in the 1980 s and the complex and clear social reality,which provides a new experimental field for contemporary development of avant-garde literature.In this experimental field of literature,Mo Bai,a writer from Henan province,insists on using avant-garde narrative techniques to reflect real life,which provides a possibility for the development of avant-garde literature at present.From the perspective of location,Henan is located in the central plains with a strong local culture.In this unique environment of realism literature,Mo Bai insisted on using the form of "foreign style" to express the reality of " local characteristics",which was special and difficult.From the perspective of the whole country,in the 1990 s when the tide of avant-garde literature faded,a marginal writer in Henan province persisted in the narrative techniques of avant-garde literature and integrated them into his unique life experience,thus reflecting the history and reality,which had special significance and value.Mo Bai's avant-garde writing is transitive.He "reproduces" the vivid reality and complex human nature with the techniques of modernism and postmodernism,presenting more complex,secret and real existence and the spiritual state of human pain,tearing,struggling,anxiety and loneliness.From the perspective of narration,Mo Bai's novels have the typical characteristics of the avant-garde narration in the 1980 s.First,he is keen to write mystery,express the emptiness and absurdity of existence,and present mysterious and absurd aesthetic qualities;second,he breaks the closed linear narrative mode by using dreams,fantasies and memories,attaches importance to the description of feelings,and forms open narrative by using polyphony and stream of consciousness.Third,he mixes poetic literati language with coarse spoken language,interweaves the language of color and picture,so as to enhance the philosophy and lyricism of narration.As for Mo Bai,form is the way to "reproduce" the reality.No matter where he goes in the narrative art,the reality he lives in is still the carrier of his narrative experiment.Mo Bai starts from his own life experience,draws inspiration from reality and includes more reality contents in his avant-garde narrative: Focus on urban and rural binary opposition,soberly look at the suffering of the lower class,painly review the rural reality,repent and resolve the dilemma of modern spirit.Under the impact of the business tide,Mo Bai painstakingly "reappears" the fresh reality and the complex human nature,tries to make breakthroughs in avant-garde despite of his marginal position in the field of literature..Although this kind of insistence seems to be a little clumsy and unsatisfactory,but for the contemporary literature lack of creativity and thinking,Mo Bai's avant-garde writing has its unique value and significance.The ultimate goal of literature is to "reproduce" reality through certain aesthetic forms,and avant-garde literature is no exception.In the long run,avant-garde literature should not be limited to the innovation of text forms,but develop a profound spirit of reflection and an attitude of constant transcendence with a down-to-earth creation,which is of positive significance to the construction of a more dynamic,inclusive and diversified literary ecological environment.