The style of Brothers is quite different from the heavy tension in early works, and the narrative of writing has also changed greatly. Yu Hua, who is in the period of avant-garde novel creation, is concise in narration and complicated in writing, and rarely uses spoken English. Brothers has a slow narrative, bright language and colloquial buzzwords.
Speaking of narrative procrastination, let me give you a few examples. For example, a group of blind cripples in the welfare factory invited Li Guangtou to eat noodles, which was so extravagant that they wrote down not only what they ordered, but also what they ate first, and then what they ate. For example, after Li Guang failed to start a business for the first time, he was collected by Tong Blacksmith, Wang Popsicle and others, which can be repeated completely, but Yu Hua did not hesitate to describe how Tong Blacksmith and other five people collected debts and how to hit Li Guang on the head.
In fact, Yu Hua is not suitable for writing long stories. Most of his novels have simple clues, and one main line comes to the end (except shouting in the drizzle), which can almost be regarded as an elongated novella. Living is like this, Xu Sanguan sells blood, and brothers are even more so.
Brothers is divided into two parts. The first half mainly tells the life experiences of Li Guangtou and Song Gang in their childhood, corresponding to the historical period of1970s, while the second half mainly tells the adult experiences of Li Guangtou and Song Gang, corresponding to the historical period after the reform and opening up.
As Yu Hua pointed out in the postscript of Brothers, "The first story is the wg story, which is an era of fanaticism, instinctive depression and tragic fate, equivalent to the Middle Ages in Europe; The latter is the current story, an era of ethical subversion, impetuous indulgence and equality of all beings, even surpassing today's Europe. "
Some people understand the alternation of two eras from the framework of evolution, but it is not. In the latter era, the black-and-white inversion was even higher than that in the wg period. Honest and honest Song Gang couldn't find the fulcrum of survival in such an impetuous era, and finally became a transsexual, while Li Guangtou, who was derailed, was rich and had crazy sex with his brother's wife.
If Yu Hua used more realistic techniques in Brothers Up, then Yu Hua used a lot of exaggerated and satirical carnival narratives in Brothers Down.
In Brothers, Yu Hua's realism combined with children's perspective forms a misplaced aesthetic effect. The original cruel dark reality has become illusory after being seen by children who don't know the truth, but after careful consideration, its tragic charm has not weakened, but has increased.