The Tension Between Forgetting And Remembering

Since the 1990 s,Fang Fang has successively created novels such as "Grandfather in His Father's Heart","Wu Nihu Lake Chronicle","Water Under Time","Min's 1911","Wuchang City" and "Soft Buried".Here,the article focuses on the major political and historical events,rather than the narrative background,and focuses on this part of the work.Some of the works in Fangfang only use history as the story,such as "Landscape" and "Flower Full Moon",etc.,as the reference object of this article.At present,many scholars' understanding of the historical works of the other side has not completely broken through the angle of writing the fate of intellectuals.Although people find the ideological value of this part of the novel,they ignore their aesthetic value.At the same time,the study of the novels on the subject of the other side's history is limited to the perusal criticism of a single text,pointing out the historical narrative style of the writer and the reasons for its formation,but few of them are regarded as a complete series of historical narratives.Behind the text,express what kind of historical consciousness.In fact,this part of the novel has a consistent theme,and it presents a more complex and contradictory historical concept.In the Fangfang novels,some repetitive natural weather images can be used as an entry point for reading.Miller and other theorists believe that the recurring elements in the novel can produce meaning,and the writer has repeatedly described the ideas of the image to the work.This conclusion can be used to interpret the works of the party.In the book "The Age of Wu Nihu" and "Water Under Time",the writer connects the snow image and the water image with the fate of the characters to express a unique historical concept.In the novel,the experience and fate of the characters reflect the rich social and historical process,and it contains rich historical memory.Fang Fang gave his own characters a fate that was buried ruthlessly by time,meaning that complex history can not escape the fate of being forgotten.Here,history seems to be an object of unknowingness,and the process of reproducing theevolution of history becomes impossible.However,Fang Fang's attitude towards history is not static.After recognizing the forgotten fate of history,the author believes that restoring the truth of history and bearing in mind the process of history is all meaningful and necessary.The author believes that history is an object that can be recognized.The basic theme of the novel "1911" and "Wuchang City" is to remember history.Since history and literature belong to different discourse systems,the subtle differences between the two determine that writers need to reproduce historical truth in a novel way.In the works,Fang Fang naturally integrates the historical records into the plots and characters.The author describes the influence of contingency factors on historical events and considers the existence of the people in the historical process.At the same time,the author constantly changes the narrative perspective,and repeats the same events,people,and scenes,and reproduces historical facts from an objective and fair position.Through unique artistic expressions,writers show the complex face of history itself.Finally,on the issue of how people make historical choices,Fang Fang is in a dilemma.As a novel reflecting the history of land reform,"soft burial" describes the relationship between violent factors and human evil.Since physical violence brings great trauma to historical witnesses,the author demonstrates the contradictory attitude between people forgetting history and remembering history by describing the dialogue process of different characters on the same event.Finally,the author takes a serious reflection on history itself from the metaphysical level of philosophy.Due to the ambiguity and ambiguity of the word "history",the writer describes the complex events of the history of the dialogue between the witnesses and the non-experienced people.Forgetting history or remembering history,there is a huge "tension" between the two opposite attitudes,reflecting the complex historical consciousness of the square.Based on the truth in the historical sense,Fang Fang reproduces historical events and forms a unique historical narrative style.We put the square into the historical context of new historicism and can clearly discover the literary contribution of the square.By comparing the representative works of Fang Fang with Ge Fei and Su Tong,we find that the historical novels of Fang Fang form a dialogue relationship with the novels of New Historicism.For the historical agnosticism,deconstructing the lofty and solemn nature of the revolution,expressing the theme of the critique of the times,the works of Fang Fang also have corresponding manifestations.In the new historical novels,the writers give full play to the subjectivity of creation,show the various understandings of history in rich art forms,and break through the existing concepts of people's history.There are many similarities between Fang Fang and the representative writers of the new historical novels.All in all,history has many ways of imagining and narrating.Some of the concepts of Western New Historicism provide important theoretical support for domestic writers to express their own diversified understanding of history.In the novel,writers should use a variety of artistic techniques to express rich historical concepts and bring new experience and inspiration to readers.What is worthwhile is that history is not a "clown" that can be dressed casually.If a writer completely abandons the truth in the historical sense,literature is also in danger of falling into nihilism.Classic literary works often have historical truth and literary reality.The enlightenment of Fang Fang to people is that in the process of demonstrating the complexity of history,how do writers combine literary fiction with historical texts to achieve a balance point and express their deep thoughts on history.