A Study Of Lu Min’s Novels

Lu Min is a writer born in the 1970s who emerged in the new century.Her novels can be roughly divided into five series:"Love and Marriage" series,"Dongba" series,"Hidden Illness" series,"Times" series and "Hormone" series.Lu Min has her own unique thinking about writing.Opening her works,the thick history breath blows on the face.Although she does not intend to show the grand social and historical transition and changes,she strives to depict the "daily" form of life under the historical warp and weave.Most of Lu Min’s personal memory of "family" history comes from the long dictation of her grandparents and fathers.The memory of "family" has influenced her thinking and emotion about history,and has also become the motivation for her creation.These indirect experiences contribute to Lu Min’s unique writing of the history of "family".At the same time,she also sets up the typical historical background in many texts.In Lu Min’s works,the characters and stories bound by "history" show the unique historical complex of novelists.Lu min has her own consideration for the individualization and publicity of her writing,which indicates her personal pursuit of the individualization and publicity.Lu Min takes pains to explore the individual’s survival dilemma and expresses the unique humanistic feelings of novelists.Lu Min’s novels have created a lot of distinctive character images which are closely related to the author’s own experience and creative ideas.Among the numerous characters,the most prominent ones are the family characters and the Dongba characters.In a sense,the family characters and the Dongba characters constitute the unique "pedigree" in Lu Min’s works.A review of Lu Min’s novels reveals that her characters and stories have obvious diachronic characteristics,which record the historical changes of Chinese society from rural to urban in the new period,and form a variety of narrative themes,among which the most unique ones are "growth","escape" and "suffering".The three narrative themes are interrelated,which constructs the unique narrative space andforms the unique narrative tension in Lu Min’s novels.