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Research On The Survival Theme Of Chi Zijian’s Short Stories

Posted on:2022-06-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2505306332455624Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Chi Zijian is a writer who loves to write about the land.Her literary creation began in the era of "avant-garde literature",but she was not eager to pursue experiments on Literary Forms.She resolutely chose the Arctic Village,the northeast border that nurtures her literary soul,and used her literary brush to reappear the living conditions of the ordinary people in her hometown of Arctic Village.She thinks about the survival will and spirit of all living beings,and criticizes and re-evaluates modern urban life with the closed-space Arctic Village world,and thinks about what is true humanity and civilization.In the novel,the reappearance of the dilemma of the miserable life,the frequent occurrence of deaths,the surprise occurrence of accidental events,and the hope of life under the oppression of suffering are all the writer’s thinking on the human theme of survival and the literary theme.Reproducing suffering with sincere brushstrokes will inevitably bring a sense of desolation.She creates literary works with compassion and idealism,which will inevitably ma ke the works emit a sweet taste,and eventually form a writing style of bittersweet,sadness and joy,and this is what the author thinks is the theme of human survival.One of the biggest features of Chi Zijian’s short stories in terms of theme is the expression of survival.The novels are full of thinking about human basic survival and perceptual feelings about life.Whether it’s the tireless writing about death,the objective reproduction of the miserable life,or the unconscious flow of the characters in the novel,the ultimate goal is to think about survival,and to show the plight of survival and the method of salvation through a closed living space.This article takes survival as the breakthrough point and short stories as the material,and incorporates the analysis of Chi Zijian’s creation into the vertical literary history,revealing the theme of his survival.Specifically,by studying the root of survival,the soul of survival and the truth of survival in his short story creation,I want to reveal the unique expression of the theme of survival and the significance of literary history in his highly personal literary creation represented by short stories.First part: The Arctic Village and Harbin,as the writer’s literary hometown and story bearer,provide a space foundation for the development of the theme of survival,allowing the writer to display the unique survival content: the display of the original situation of suffering in a closed space and the warmth story in Harbin with fireworks Narrative.Through the analysis and classification of specific works,in-depth study of specific survival content and its display methods.The second part: Nature and religion are topics that will never be separated from Chi Zijian’s creation.The writer assigns symbolic meaning to the natural environment and natural scenery,making them a part of the living content and emotions.Choosing both nature and religion as the way of romantic creation to comfort the suffering and survival,and finally form a kind of warm atmosphere.The third part: Literature is a kind of human studies,and Chi Zijian’s literature has always had a kind of humanistic care.This kind of humanistic care is manifested in the display of human nature and sense of d estiny.Through the portrayal of abnormal person,it goes deep into the soul of the nation and seeks spiritual relief from the predicament of survival.In general,on the one hand short stories show survival dilemma and firework life,on the other hand short stories seek salvation and survival truth in literary writing,finally presenting a mixed survival theme of bittersweet and joy.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chi Zijian, short stories, survival, misery, human nature
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