The Exotic Images In Fantasy Travel

“Gargantua and Pantagruel” is a french novel born in the first half of the sixteenth century.It represents the outstanding humanist — Rabelais' s ardent hope for the Renaissance and the bright prospects of the times.At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century,the Qing Dynasty,Jiaqing,“The Marriage of Flowers in the Mirror” carried the ridiculous scolding of the brilliant talent of Li Ruzhen.The two works at different times and places are destined to have huge differences.However,if you read the two works carefully,you can see that the protagonists in the text are traversing the different looks and behaviors in the ocean journey on the Fantasy exotic country.Therefore,with the exotic image as the center of the circle,multiple levels of similarity discussion can be carried out.The first is the space-time field where the alien image is generated.The constant Carnival and Shangsi Festival are hidden in the flowing natural time of the two books.In the description of the combination of virtual and real of geological space,a free liminal space is created for the hero,they jointly directed the entire text to unconventional and fantasy.Secondly,the strange forms and behaviors of exotic images and the wonders of living areas reflect the different aesthetic concepts of China and France,however,the weird style and lampoonery of two books have great similarities,they both use parody and sarcasm to explore a variety of social issues in a humorous atmosphere.Third,the exotic image is the image of the "other",its reflection of "self-image" is diversified.In addition to the social ills that the author deliberately revealed,it also includes external backgrounds such as geographical environment and cultural trends,and even reflects the author's life experience and writing attitude,so can found the two authors have similarities such as the livingenvironment of the sea,the repressed cultural context,personal life experience,recreational creative style.The last point is from the social collective imagination of the exotic image "Oriental vase and Seaside town",we can get a glimpse of the real external communication situation and national mentality of each era.At the same time,two books reveal that human beings have the same carnival theme but different styles in the pursuit ceremony of this common literary journey.