Refuse To Sing

Among the contemporary Chinese writers,Li Rui is a special one.He always chooses to stand outside the trend and insist on the independence of creation.When the literary world was keen on various Western theories,he insisted on his own experience of the world,the human beings,and the unforgettable experience of history.When the wave of globalization culture is almost annihilated for national and local writing,it always has a vigilant attitude.Li Rui's novels show a dualistic intertextual relationship.At the end of a novel,he will write again from another angle.The two novels often share a big theme and together present a spiritual connotation,resulting in a novel.Tension and elasticity.In the novels of Thick Soil and Taiping Style:Agricultural Tools Series Novel Exhibition.the author looks at the living conditions of small villagers under the big history,and presents the pre-modern and modern destiny of the local world under historical changes.In Thick Soil,Li Rui discovered the stagnation and silence of the pre-modern style of the local world,the ignorance and numbness of people under the imiprsonment of power structure and out of control,and the numbness of eternal life.The horror of the students' dreams of survival,the incompatibility of the urban knowledge structure and the experience of the country all indicate the fate of the abandoned land.Tai Ping Feng Wu:The Exhibition of Fiction of Farm Tools Series is the disclosure of Li Rui's modern destiny of the native China after 18 years.The use of "hypertext collage" to communicate ancient and modern,classical and vernacular,showing the sadness of the homeland filled with blood and tears in the process of passive modernization.Whether pre-modern or modem,rural and peasant are always in a situation of being ruthlessly deprived.In the novels of The Tree Without Wind and The Cloudless Clouds,Li Rui abandoned the sharp and sharp written language and single-person perspective,put it into the ocean of oral English,and used Faulkner's multi-person perspective to transform the narrative method and creativity.The place has made a profound expression of the negative resistance of folk culture to the temple culture and the shaping of the "knowledge youth" by the temple culture.The author does not stand on the position of educated youth to "reject confession",nor does it turn the folk into a poetic pastoral,but responds to his own inner questioning with a contradictory,confrontational,and split mentality.Li Rui's historical novels are also unique.From The Old Site to Silver City Story to The Eighth Day of Zhang Martin,the author spread his own modern history in the trace of history.The irrational history in The Old Site ruthlessly devours the brilliance of life,the heavens and the earth are not benevolent,and the longings and struggles of human beings seem to be illusory;the revolutionary history of the landslides in the Silver City Story is in the history of the people without desire or desire.Under the parcel,it constitutes a reading experience that combines tension and distance,edge and center,and instant and eternity.The eighth day of Zhang Martin is Li Rui's first turn to the proposition of faith,when the human world has become In purgatory,whether the direction of faith can redeem a fragile and firm life.If faith becomes a bondage,is there any way to find it apart from leaving?In short,Li Rui consciously writes the life and death of his own nation as a Chinese writer,walks into the insulted destiny life as a historical witness,and observes the lost men and women who believe in the loss with sorrowful feelings,Refused to sing,always insist on writing local and history with his own unforgettable experience.