Another Face Of The Novelist

Yan Lianke rose to fame in contemporary Chinese literary field by virtue of his local novels,but caused a lot of controversy and disgrace.He is widely known as one of the most controversial novelists in contemporary Chinese literature.Yan Lianke’s fabulous literary creation includes fiction and prose.Although the relationship between his novel and reality tends to be more and more nervous,his prose shows a rare relaxation.Therefore,his creative mentality returns to peace between tension and relaxation.In addition,Yan Lianke’s essay on literary theory Discovery Novels,which is based on the experience of novel creation and reading,has established the coordinates of literary theory of Theological Realism.It’s a milestone for himself and inspiring for others.This paper is aiming at exploring the neglected value of prose and achieving the complete and pertinent identity of the writer by choosing Yan Lianke’s prose as the research object.Besides,this paper will reflect the group value of novelists involved in the field of prose and clarifie the positive significance of cross-genre writing in promoting the healthy development of prose.The introduction part aims to clarify the concept of "prose",determine the scope of the research object and summarize the achievements of Yan Lianke’s prose research in academic circles.It intends to adopt the method of case study and pay attention to the combination of internal and external research.It not only uses narrative theory to read the text carefully,but also uses reception aesthetics theory to analyze the audience.Meanwhile,it intends to find out relevant evidence of the impact with the subjective concept and the background factors of the times.Ultimately,we will get a comprehensive understanding of the case.The first chapter mainly deals with Yan Lianke’s narrative prose works.It not only compares the similarities and differences in material and emotional processing between local novel and local prose from the perspective of language style and narrative perspective,but also compares the authenticity differences caused by the choice of different narrative personages and viewpoint characters.Finally,this chapter tries to find out the reasons why writers continue the warming era with prose from the aspects of rural complex and genre advantages.The second chapter mainly covers Yan Lianke’s essays on literary theory.Based on the writer’s main body,it analyses how the characteristics of essays’ form(freedom,flexibility and talent)help to construct the theoretical system of Theological Realism.Based on the reader’s level,it explores the different readingfeelings brought by Discovery Novels to the critics and ordinary readers from the perspective of acceptance motivation and acceptance process.In this way,we can re-examine the role of essays in literary theory.The third chapter mainly discusses the special significance of Yan Lianke’s prose to his adjustment of creative mentality and theoretical fulcrum.Connecting with the chaotic phenomena of current prose,it highlights the group value of "foreigners" in rebuilding the dignity of prose in terms of content depth and clarifies the stylistic integration characteristics of prose using novel techniques for reference by comparing Yan Lianke with Jia Pingwa,Shi Tiesheng and Zhang Wei’s prose.Finally,it affirms the importance of novelists’ literary essays for restoring the open and diverse pattern of literary criticism.In a word,Yan Lianke not only writes authentically and fictionally about this local area,but also keeps a good dialogue between theory and practice.The group of novelists represented by Yan Lianke,facing up to the dialogue with reality,soul and nature,not only stabilizes the important fulcrum of prose dignity,but also demonstrates an open attitude.Therefore,they can apply the novel’s genre skills to prose flexibly and avoid being bound by paradigm shackles.It shows the creativity and activity of prose writing,which is worth learning by prose writers and critics.