Aesthetic Research Of Liu Cixin's Science Fiction Novels

As Liu Cixin leading Chinese science fiction literature to the world stage,science fiction literature,a relatively marginalized literary genre,gradually attracted the attention of mainstream literary critics.Liu Cixin's science fictions have created many new artistic images which are different from traditional literature.Moreover,it creates the unique aesthetic characteristics and corresponding aesthetic effects of science fiction.All of these make Liu Cixin's science fictions have unique aesthetic value.From the perspective of aesthetic image,the racial image,the world image,the scientific image,the scientific god,the irrational group and the super hero are very representative in Liu Cixin's science fictions.The aesthetic characteristics are embodied in the sublime,harmony,cruelty and tragedy.And these bring readers aesthetic experience and aesthetic effect that can only be obtained in Liu's novels.The unique aesthetic features of Liu Cixin's science fictions consist in the inheritance,innovation and transcendence of traditional literature from multiple aspects,which including aesthetic perspective,logic and imagination,special treatment of the aerial world,effect of deconstruction,and the internal contradictions of the text.From the perspective of aesthetics,Liu Cixin's science fictions have created the origin and base of his works' aesthetic style and aesthetic realm by extending his vision to the whole universe in the outer dimension and making efforts to de-humanize the inner dimension.In terms of the relationship between logic and imagination,Liu Cixin's science fictions create a delicate unity and balance between the logic and the construction of imagination space.It gives readers a strong sense of credibility and reality,and is also full of imagination and beauty.In addition,through defamiliarization of the world and poetic treatment of the universe,Liu's novels put the imaginary world at a proper aesthetic distance and endow it with romantic and poetic color.The dual deconstruction of the human moral value system and the meaning of human existence deepens the ideological depth of his works and further expands the space of aesthetic connotation.Furthermore,the conflict between the natural law and the moral law,as well as the cruelty of the universe and the insistence of human nature constitute the polyphony,which further pushes Liu Cixin's science fictions to a transcendental aesthetic realm.These elements in different aspects are interrelated and affect each other,and finally form an organic whole,which together constitute the aesthetic mechanism behind Liu Cixin's science fictions.