On The Paradox Of Zhou Libo's Novel Creation

Zhou Libo appeared in the modern and contemporary literary history as an author,scholar,literary fighter,grass-roots worker and so on.He has been walking in the forefront of various historical periods as a revolutionary,and writing about the major themes of the times.When it comes to his works,readers simply attribute them to the scope of revolutionary literature and only see the political utilitarian features of his works;or enjoy the colorful,subtle and realistic description of rural life in his works.Generally speaking,in evaluating Zhou Libo's achievements in literary history,"stage process thinking" and "eternal principle thinking" are mutually exclusive and incompatible.The former emphasizes the rationality of political writing in a special historical context,while the latter emphasizes the examination of Zhou Libo's writing practice based on the principles of literariness and humanity.The deviation of these two kinds of thinking leads to Zhou Libo's research into a split and awkward situation.This paper attempts to combine the two kinds of thinking and explore the tension relationship between the political and literary features in his creation from a perspective of consideration and integration,It can also be said that it is to explore the paradoxical relationship between the political "structure" and the literary "texture" of his novels,and put it in the literary tradition to explore the historical origin of his enlightenment attitude,creation method,theme tradition,personal style formation and his contribution to enriching the modern literary tradition that should not be ignored.The introduction part aims to sort out the general situation of Zhou Libo's novel creation and research summary,and explain the reason and significance of the topic.The first chapter is about the contradiction between political expression and free life form.First,the entanglement of "human" and human transformation.The "human" in Zhou Libo's novels is not only an individual with strong desire,but also a transformed subject.In the local cultural tradition,the individual develops the inherent character,but also faces the discipline of the political will of the nation-state.The rationality of human desire and the inevitability of human transformation are integrated and dissolved in Zhou Libo's works.Second,the contradiction between the narration of daily life and the utopian ideal of social transformation.Zhou Libo's novels show a kind of abstract cognition of "the law of historical necessity",whichcontains the utopian ideal of social transformation.However,when the text is narrated in detail,it is also rooted in the real space of daily life.The trivial and miscellaneous daily life disturbs the theoretical analysis,so the transcendental utopian ideal is virtually dispelled by the narrative of daily life.Under the overt revolutionary pursuit of expressing social transformation,the novel conceals the invisible structure,that is,people's emotional story of material.Third,the interwoven writing of mainstream ideology and folk nature.The writing of the mainstream ideology and the writing of the life style of the rural folk nature extracted from the folk experience are interwoven in the narrative of the novel.In the text,the narrative unfolds in the dual vision of the mainstream of the times and the nature of the folk.The revolutionary political ethics achieves the goal of the national politics under the guise of the Folk Ethics.At the same time,the appeal of the development of the national modernity suppresses the voice of the rural folk.The folk characters do not develop in full accordance with the trajectory of the revolutionary nature,but realize the individual pursuit with the help of the revolution.The second chapter,from the narrative techniques to explore the contradictions of Zhou Libo's creation.First,the conflict between political writing and characterization.The characterization in Zhou Libo's novels not only pays attention to the conscious expression of ideological position,but also conforms to the requirements of artistic laws.On the one hand,under the "integrated" writing standard,the artistic appeal of the image of some cadres as the representative of political consciousness is weakening;on the other hand,through the misplaced expression of the political and emotional relations between the characters in the novel,we can see the narration of the dilemma when the creative subject concurrently considers the idea of political governance and emotional tendency.Second,the thinking characteristics behind the narrative structure.Zhou Libo adopted the linear structure with compact rhythm in his early novels,which is in line with the internal logic of revolutionary narrative.In the later novels,he consciously controlled the narrative rhythm,behind the compact rhythm was the demand of the revolution progress,while behind the slow rhythm was the author's interest in the scenery and trivial daily scenes,the author tended to express the relaxed rhythm,and the narration of this scene digested the political narration.This kind of novel also embeds the "cross-section" structure in the straight-line story of the rural revolution to take into account the expressionneeds of political thinking and artistic thinking.Third,the language strategy of the novel text.Zhou Libo attached great importance to the carving of the novel language and adopted certain language strategies to express it.The written language system pointed to the concept,thinking and requirements of politics;the dialect system pointed to the life experience,thinking cognition and emotional expression of local farmers.Through the interpenetration and misplaced dialogue between characters of different identities,the novel shows the entanglement between the national will and the rural folk.This makes the novel approach to historical reality and realistic details in grand narrative.This also shows that when facing the dislocation of political policy and farmers' interests,the author should not only support the policy,but also maintain the complex psychological contradictions of farmers' interests.Chapter three,the paradox of Zhou Libo's creation from the perspective of literary tradition.First,the relationship between literary texts and farmers.In Zhou Libo's novels,the peasants become the protagonists of history,and they are the main force of the revolution in the rural revolution.At the same time of expressing this reality,the novel inherits the enlightenment task to the farmers in the new literary tradition,which is mainly embodied in the Enlightenment of political modernity.Therefore,Zhou Libo,on the one hand,should change the previous attitude of the elite criticism,show respect for the farmers,on the other hand,complete the national political standard requirements for the farmers,which makes his novel present both political enlightenment and sudden The contradictory attitude of peasants' historical status.Second,the development and variation of realism creation tradition.Zhou Libo's novel creation adheres to the realistic creation method,and shows a repressed romantic tendency.His later creation also shows an aestheticism tendency.We don't confirm his creation method with "doctrine",but we can find that he infuses Lyric elements into realistic creation method,pursues romantic and aesthetic Lyric expression of poetry and fantasy while emphasizing "reality",and presents unique personal style under this contradictory creation method.Thirdly,the paradoxes in the theme tradition.Zhou Libo's novels show a paradoxical feature in the three themes of rural revolution,civilian heroism and rural women's Liberation: in the dominant theme,Zhou Libo,like the novels at that time,respectively wrote about the class struggle(including the establishment of the country and entrepreneurial activities),the shaping of the new socialist image and rural womenunder the leadership of the party Liberate from family to participate in social activities.In the specific narration,Zhou Libo "fused" and "transformed" the factors in the new literary tradition since the May 4th movement,that is,the class struggle of peasants is based on the cognitive thinking of Folk Ethics,the political exemplary role of new people is based on the individual moral quality,and the liberation of rural women depends on the joint effect of individual value pursuit and new social structure mode.The conclusion part is the integrated cognition of the previous discussion,reflecting on Zhou Libo's position in literary history.It is difficult for Zhou Libo to become a "master" in the history of modern Chinese literature.It can be said that his position in the history of literature is the fatalistic dilemma faced by a brilliant writer who has crossed two times.