On The Youth Writing Of Shi Yifeng’s Novels

As the main force driving social development,young people have also become an important object of literary writing.The construction of youth roles in literary works is closely related to the writers’ individual experiences and literary concepts,but is also influenced by the spirit of the times and the social context.Shi Yifeng’s writing on youth not only presents their interaction with the times,but also explores how youth find their place in society.In the process of creation,Shi Yifeng’s literary concept and aesthetic pursuit become clearer and clearer,and exploring the relationship between people and the times has become his artistic appeal.This thesis explores the interaction between young individuals and the world in Shi Yifeng’s novels from the perspective of the relationship between youth and the times in Shi Yifeng’s novels.Through the study,we can find that Shi Yifeng’s novels,no matter how the subjects change,are actually asking the fundamental question of the meaning of human existence.In the face of broken ideals and the powerful oppression of reality,how should young people find a fulcrum for themselves to stand on in life and realize the meaning and value of their subjects? By thinking about the survival situation of youth,Shi Yifeng further reflects on the era in which youth live,thus gaining depth and breadth of literary creation.The first chapter,titled Escape and Compromise on the Road to Growth,mainly takes the characters in Shi Yifeng’s early youth growth novels as the objects of study and analyzes the escape and compromise of youth from the real world after the disillusionment of their ideals.The young people refuse to face the current reality directly,or try to escape from the current social order,or oscillate between the unattainable ideal and the unwilling reality,but escape and oscillation are only a temporary intermediate state.In the end,they can only choose to compromise and return to reality after there is nowhere to run.The second chapter,titled Struggle and Losses in the City,mainly focuses on the characters in Shi Yifeng’s later novels on social problems and analyzes the opposition between the individual demands of youth and the conditions of the times.Shi Yifeng constructs an overarching imagination of the times in the form of literature,provides a holistic analysis of the real situation of youth today,and examines how the material,spiritual,and psychological needs of youth are both shaped by the discourse of the times and repressed and distorted by the times with a distanced narrative perspective.The third chapter,titled Breakout and Transcendence of Difficulties,analyzes how Shi Yifeng seeks a way out for youth in his writing when youth and society cannot form a benign interaction.In his writing,Shi Yifeng sets up two parallel lives,so that the youth can reflect on themselves and grow in the examination of the other,and with his sentient writing,the youth can gain solace in the heartless world.Finally,Shi Yifeng constructs the values of the contingent world,thus realizing the transcendence of the real world.Through an in-depth analysis of Shi Yifeng’s novel text,this thesis feels the writer’s dual thinking about life and times.The study of Shi Yifeng’s writing on the relationship between youth and the times is not only conducive to expanding the perspective of Shi Yifeng’s novels,but also to our understanding of the current situation of the times and the reality of youth in China.