The Spatial Metaphor In Bei Cun’s Novels

Bei Cun,as one of the few writers in mainland China who has professed Christian faith,his "divinity writing" after the transition of vanguard writing has made a big impression in the literary circle and attracted researchers to analyze his works from different perspectives.In the writing process,he is used to write novels to show Christian culture and express the ultimate concern through human life.Therefore,literature space in his novels,which has both practical significance and theological imagination,presents great metaphorical meanings.Based on the Bible,Bei Cun has built three metaphorical space,including "the country","the city" and "the paradise".During his creating process,the U-shaped structure of the Bible usually be used to start narrative writing.The three space,as three main nodes of this constructive model,respectively be the metaphor of “the lost Eden”,“the evil Babylon”,and “the coming city of God”.Based on the Christian theology,this article prepares to take "The Baptized River","The Covenant Between God and I","Anger",and other typical works as examples to analyze metaphorical meanings of the three main space.According to the analysis,we find out that the U-shaped spatial structure in Bei Cun’s novels becomes a metaphor of a biblical comedy named "the rebellion son returns".In Bei Cun’s novels,a complete biblical comedy,an open spatial metaphor,and transcendental religious aesthetics,endows certain artistic values and realistic meanings to his spatial writing.But at the same time,Bei Cun overemphasizes the binary opposition between the reality and the divine space in order to emphasize the uniqueness of religious salvation,which makes some imperfection and deficiency be exposed in his spatial writing.