On The Absence Of The First-person Narrator In Lu Xun's "Hell" And "Wandering"

The artistic skills and ideological connotation of Lu Xun's novels have always been a topic of constant concern in the study of modern Chinese literature.This paper takes the first-person narrative novel in “Scream”and “Wandering”as the research object,and takes the absence of the first-person narrator involved in the novel as the breakthrough point.Combining with the relevant narrative theory,through close reading of the text,it first discovers and analyses the content and form of the novel caused by the absence of the first-person narrator.Meaningful questions,then excavate the complex narrative motivation of the first person narrator and the implied author,and finally explore Lu Xun's intention in using these narrative strategies,in order to see a corner of Lu Xun's spiritual world which contains profound contradictions.In Scream and Wandering,a total of nine novels involve the absence of the first person narrator.This paper will be divided into four categories for discussion.In Madman's Diary and Grief for the Past,there are two first-person narrators,internal and external.Their absence has resulted in the objectification of the inner world and the cover of the inner narrative.The tortuous narrative style reflects the spiritual predicament of the first-person narrator,which is in contradiction with Lu Xun's enlightenment thoughts in different periods.Of In The Story of Ah Q and Tomorrow,the first person narrator uses the omniscient narrative of the "storyteller" and the limited narrative of the third person to achieve the purpose of absence on the surface of the text.However,the moral and emotional standpoint implied in the text and the sympathy and criticism of the characters when they appear inadvertently make it impossible for them to be absent.It is related to the contradiction between objective rationality and subjective perception in Lu Xun's criticism of national character.In Confucius Yiji and Blessing,the first-person narrator is absent from the recollection narrative,transferring the narrative right to the experiential self and characters who acquire independence and subjectivity,thus escaping from the narrative scene and transferring the responsibility for the hero's tragedy,but being tried by the implied author.This narrative strategy of using unreliable narrators to restore the fictional nature of the novel is related to Lu Xun's doubts about the validity of his literary discourse.In The Story of Hair,Up in the Restaurant and The Lonely,the first-person narrator makes the characters fully self-sufficient by default,and makes them have a deep-seated spiritual dialogue with themselves in sympathy and self-reflection,presenting two groups of inner worlds that penetrate and confront each other,respectively.Whether the contradictions of the characters themselves or the delicate contradictions between the characters and the first-person narrator are the result of Lu Xun's objectification of his inner world full of profound contradictions.