On Acceptance Of The Abandoned Capital

In 1993,Jia Pingwa's river novel The Abandoned Capital was born,which was like a blockbuster thrown into the literary arena,causing a great noise.Its bold sexual description and decadent mood at the end of the century not only triggered an unprecedented rush to buying and widespread discussion in society,but also made it undergo the legendary fate of banned and lifted and become a well-known phenomenon of The Abandoned Capital.Thus opening up a unique and rugged road of acceptance of The Abandoned Capital with high attention.Nowadays,the acceptance of The Abandoned Capital has gradually become an important literary event.Since the publication of The Abandoned Capital,the domestic acceptance,including experts,scholars and ordinary readers,has been characterized as noisy acceptance.Experts and scholars' s wavering attitudes of acceptance in three periods including the 1990 s,the beginning of the century,the current,are quite different from Shaanxi native critics and Beijing critics.The older critics are sympathetic and the younger critics are acrimonious,enriched the domestic acceptance of The Abandoned Capital,from time,region and age dimensions,forming a hesitant and changeable attitude of acceptance.Ordinary readers rush to buy,but scold and regret after reading,which also implies the complex and changeable acceptance of The Abandoned City.Although European and American scholars and Japanese scholars hold the opinion of general affirmation,they are also in sharp contrast with domestic acceptance in the focus of attention on sex and waste,detailed and concise research methods and specific evaluation tendency.In the process of acceptance of The Abandoned Capital,the comments of experts and scholars' apologies and even the neglect of literary history constitute a striking event.Not only highlight the uncertain research attitude of them,but also imply the inaccuracy criticism of Critics,which constitutes the special canonization road of The Abandoned Capital.From the discussion of literary phenomena to the spread of cultural events,the common help of the media and publishing industry,while pushing The Abandoned Capital to market and gainingwidespread attention and public acceptance,concealed the literary value and profound cultural connotation of The Abandoned Capital itself,also planted the seeds of misreading of the author himself and the text of The Abandoned Capital.In this process,the research tendency of equating the writer himself with the characters in his works,the discussion beyond the scope of literature,and outdated criticism criteria,which not only lead to various misreading of The Abandoned Capital,but also objectively promoted the tortuous progress of the acceptance.Under the continuous acceptance environment of big debate,new achievements,detailed research style,emerging of famous critics and outstanding masterpieces,which not only enrich the research content,but also promotes the continuous development and good acceptance situation of The Abandoned Capital from generation to generation.In the final analysis,the discourse of moral criticism,repeated exposition and expression,even the phenomenon of standing in line for criticism of circle,which are bad trend of criticism.Not only violates the principles of literary criticism,but also hinders the normal acceptance of The Abandoned Capital.From the acceptance to the text,not only concerns the positioning of writers' s creation,the literary history of the 1990 s and the development of contemporary literature,but also concerns the value judgment of The Abandoned Capital itself.These bitter criticisms and deliberate slanders also make his future creation more cautious.The distortion of the old literati image,the implicit nature of writing,the persistence in writing the city,and the restraint and steadiness of writing techniques can be regarded as a correction and a response.Therefore,there is an urgent need for a literary criticism style which originates from the text,insist on own point and restores the real "literary criticism" process.The close relationship between The Abandoned Capital and intellectuals' writing tradition and the development of contemporary literary history determines the study's historical significance.While subverting intellectuals' writing discourse,also trying to reconstruct a sincere and direct way of writing.The tortuous acceptance process of The Abandoned Capital also provides a new dimension for writing a new literary history from writer's works to reader's acceptance.The success of the overseas acceptance of The Abandoned Capital also inspires Chinese writers to write common feelings and emotions of human beings.It alsopromotes translation and introduction of contemporary literary works and further enhances the world influences of Chinese literature.