| To discuss Lao She’s novel creation,"Cat Country" can not be ignored.As the most controversial novel in Lao She’s literary career,it has not only become an important turning point in Lao She’s literary career with its illusory and ironic characteristics,but also become an important cultural resource in the history of modern Chinese literature with its unique aesthetic value and literary value.This article hopes to take the concept of "community" as the starting point to explain the theme of the novel,to criticize the national cultural defects through the social reality behind the novel representation,and to give Laoshe,an overall consideration of his literary career under the circumstances of clarifying the literary characteristics of the novel,so as to further understand its special significance in Lao She’s literary world.The first part of the introduction is about the origin of the topic.It makes a brief review and the summary of the research results,and then clarifies the significance of text research.The first chapter mainly talks about the theme of the novel.Firstly,it regards Charles Taylor’s concept of "community" as the starting point of discussion to restore and show the truth of the cat city’s demise.Secondly,it concretely presents the text of the novel and the inheritance of the objective reality of China,focusing on the two propositions of criticizing social darkness and revealing the defects of national culture,and shows the social problems and Lao She’s thoughts of how to build an ideal country.The second chapter discusses the characteristics of the novel.First of all,Lao She constructs the world of fantasy through absurd narration and connects fantasy with reality,thus revealing the symbolic connotation of aesthetic objects.Secondly,literary critics often belittle or even ignore this feature because of the author’sambiguous political position.In this chapter,the author intends to put aside the political factors and the dilemma of the times and correct the name of the satirical art of the novel from the application of literary skills.The third chapter mainly discusses the uniqueness of the novel in Lao She’s novel creation world.On the one hand,the special background of the times and the writer’s life experience create the uniqueness of the novel;on the other hand,Lao She’s novels are compared vertically to feel the writer’s special feelings in his works in the special times,that is,strong political concern and extreme despair.The concluding part summarizes the aesthetic value,literary value and social value brought about by Cat Country,and reflects on the decline of fantasy satire literature from modern to contemporary. |
