The Civilian Writing In Liu Zhenyun’s Novels

Liu Zhenyun holds a pivotal position in the contemporary literary world.Since the late1970 s,Liu Zhenyun has been working tirelessly,winning widespread attention at home and abroad with his keen insight,firm civilian stance,and civilian language style.His novels have shown distinct civilian characteristics from content to form,showing a clear tendency towards civilian orientation.In the process of exploring the civilian writing in Liu Zhenyun’s novels,this article mainly focuses on the civilian characters in the novels,revealing the rural and urban fields of civilian life,and analyzing their artistic strategies for constructing the civilian world.There are many civilian characters in Liu Zhenyun’s novels,including the ignorant represented by "I" who sacrificed their lives and dignity under the oppression of the rulers,violently passed on hardships,and showed ugly faces under the dual pathologies of body and spirit.There are compromisers represented by Kobayashi who,in order to satisfy material and power desires,abandon morality and personality,compromise with reality,and degenerate into vulgar daily life.There are antagonists represented by Yang Baishun,Liu Yuejin,and Li Xuelian,struggling to break through the spiritual and material world and find a way out.These three types of civilian characters constitute the pedigree of civilian characters in Liu Zhenyun’s novels.Through the analysis of the above characters,we can see the author’s consistent civilian values and firm civilian stance.In addition,the perfect female image represented by the grandmother in the work reposes the author’s hope of rebuilding a beautiful morality,and is also an indispensable part of the portrayal of civilian characters.Liu Zhenyun completed his exploration of the urban and rural living environment in the process of shaping civilian characters.Rural areas are sometimes the epitome of real society,both facing intense changes in social transformation and being seen as a springboard to a new world,reduced to a battleground for competition.Sometimes it is a witness of disasters and history,full of plagues,famine,and endless wars,bearing the hardships and historical ups and downs of Yanjin.Cities provide seemingly stable but actually turbulent institutional units for small intellectuals,providing migrant workers from rural areas with barely able to maintain their livelihoods.At the same time,they encroach on the shelter of civilians with a strong sense of distance and alienation,pushing them to the edge of the city.By analyzing the living environment in urban and rural areas,we can enter the material and spiritual world of civilians more deeply,and understand their living conditions.The exploration of the civilian narrative style is necessary to analyze the artistic characteristics of his novels.In the process of constructing the civilian world,Liu Zhenyun has always examined history and reality from the perspective of civilians,and has achieved a skillful perspective conversion to reflect on the living conditions of civilians.Among them,aesthetic,anti aesthetic,and multi implicative images vividly and truly represent the suffering and life of civilians.The short sentence patterns and complex language make the novel present a sense of dislocation.The use of foul language not only allows civilians to vent their emotions,but also sacrifices some of the aesthetic qualities of the work.The unique dialect and colloquialism enrich the civilian language of the novel.