Keywords: Ma Yuan; Novel; Spiritual pursuit
Ma Yuan was right after his first novel was published. Words with words? Boldly and thoroughly rebelled against traditional ideas. He has nothing to do with the ultimate meaning of literature and the literary world of metonymy. Ma Yuan, a Han Chinese, travels through leprosy village in the novel and makes crazy love with leprosy women. Such an experience is creepy. Three unrelated stories in The Temptation of Gangdise are linked by something mysterious. However, this mystery will never be found, maybe it is just an illusion. After that, the beautiful Tibetan girl died strangely, and the love story expected by readers was rudely ridiculed and abandoned. Almost every story of Ma Yuan shows his eternal passion for form. Due to the mystery of form, his narrative style tends to be extreme, which is very noticeable in the 1980 s.
"Three origami cranes" begins with a person being killed for jewelry, which seems to be not the focus of the story, and then mainly focuses on the death of an eccentric old lady under the Potala Palace. The two bizarre stories have nothing to do with each other, but because of the author's time and space setting and the use of narrative skills, the two events have a metaphysical blank. The title of this novel reminds us of this story? Fold? However, this method has not been told after several reminders by the author, which makes readers daydream infinitely.
In Mistake, the military cap is the key to this mistake. I suspect that I lost my military cap and got entangled with others. Finally, my hamstring was cut by black dates, and the black dates themselves broke the hamstring. I kicked two dogs in the genitals, killing them. At this time, my favorite woman Jiang Mei gave birth to an illegitimate child, so she didn't commit suicide. At the end of the novel, I confessed that I lost my military cap while practicing wrestling. A small military cap has made the lives of so many people cruel, and an accident has changed the fate of many people. Ma Yuan is used to combining the fates of the characters in a mixed way, splitting their lives in an instant, and finally having a cruel showdown. The fiction of his novels has no scruples about the living conditions of the characters, which can be said to be cruel to the extreme.
Fiction in Ma Yuan's novels is extreme, but it is different from fiction in the traditional sense. It is close to daily life and tries to reproduce life objectively and meticulously. Ma Yuan clearly tells you that this is a fictional story, and he doesn't expect you to believe his story, because seeking the true history of a literary story is like a war between Don Quixote and a windmill. But the author seems to be moving closer to it in the process? Real? Work hard. He wrote a series of novels? Real? This truth is a philosophical truth and an abstract truth. Fiction is only the means and way for him to create his personalized world, and the application of fiction is only to realize a metaphysical and real spiritual world. This is contrary to the rude remarks that it would be futile to find the meaning of symbols, metaphors, fables and stories in the works of avant-garde novelists. They don't mean simply preaching. Hong Zicheng and Chen Xiaoming successively acknowledged the exact existence of the meaning of avant-garde novels. In Ma Yuan's novels, this kind of human spiritual experience is just a rebellious and alternative attitude towards social civilization. Although Ma Yuan's novels are related to what? Words with words? Thoughts run counter to each other and are almost deliberately avoided, but the spiritual direction of the meaning of the text cannot be escaped by any literature, which is an inviolable law of literature. The obscurity of Ma Yuan's novels does not mean that it can be ignored.
Ma Yuan's novels are full of uncertainty. In The Temptation of Gangdise, Dunzhu disappeared for a month inexplicably, and a Tibetan girl died in a car accident. I mistakenly thought that Zhao Lao fart left for no reason. Why did Li Xiaotian commit suicide in Guess Chang 'an? There is no causal relationship between various fragments in the novel and his suicide. Finally, the author did not explain the reason. Who killed his wife in Looking Back at the Other Side? The death images of these characters are incomplete and fragmentary. In Wandering God, the story told by the old man and the woman is true. Is the old man really a descendant of a noble family? Why are there rare coins? How did he get the template? Why did he finally throw it away? After that, the whole person became different. Why did Kangba people give me a silver headdress in Three Times of Life in Lhasa? Why is there noise of objects walking on the ceiling? Finally, how could his cat be shot at the ceiling and killed? What does the author want to show and imply? Is it just the material he fills for his extreme narrative? I'm afraid this understanding is very inappropriate. Ma Yuan describes people's living conditions in more and more detail, but his feelings have been cooling down. From the ardent hope in "There is no sailing boat in the West Sea" to the crazy sex with lepers in "Fiction"? Her bulging breasts and thighs are close to me. I love them. I don't care. Her nipples are rotten. I knew half of her fingers and toes had rotted. She is a passionate woman. ? [1] Ma Yuan's description in this paper is beautiful, but I'm afraid it is cruel or even creepy in the face of leprosy. Ma Yuan's description of human suffering such as death, disease and * * is so calm and insipid that he has no sympathy and refuses to examine human suffering with emotional experience. What does such a cruel author want to explain?
Ma Yuan himself thinks that life is linked by many accidental factors, and fate is a series of accidental connections. In reality, there are many unknown factors than known ones. Everything is decided by accident, not necessarily. This is his basic attitude towards human existence in his creation, and his life fate is based on accident. This is the real life and world in Ma Yuan's mind, and it is also the real view of Ma Yuan. Understanding this concept is very helpful to understand Ma Yuan's novels, and the accidental events in Ma Yuan's novels must be the result of this concept. The accidental fragmentation of his novels aims to bring a real world to the audience and restore the true colors of life. After the hardships of life, Ma Yuan got out of the accident. Origami in three ways? Me? From the early enthusiasm and heroism, it became solemn and refined, and the soul transcended the suffering of worldly worldly desires and reached the realm of purity and holiness.
In Ma Yuan's novels, there is not a tear in the face of death and illness, and Jin Yang's death is just a car accident. Lin Xinghua's death was blamed on a fire; There are Jiang Mei's death, Bottle's death, Xiao Li's death and Li Xiaotian's death. ? What's the way to die? What about the living? You should not laugh when you are happy, lament when you are sad, hiss when you are shy, joke when you are joking, and live a primitive life until the end of your life. No one in the work was depressed or committed suicide because of the death of a loved one. What is life like in his novels? Doing nothing? Our life, everything goes with fate, is doomed, and it is useless to think too much. There is no elite consciousness and ideal color in his works. He wants you to experience real life. The meaning of his works is not after reading, but during reading. How to treat life, how to extend life and how to treat fate are the eternal themes of literature. Ma Yuan's novels seem to pay too much attention to fiction and ignore this theme, but they do inadvertently show his view of inaction towards life. Literary works always reflect the author's philosophical awareness of human life, and Ma Yuan's novels are also inseparable from the expression of the concept of human existence.
This writing style of Ma Yuan's novels is a mockery of the logical structure of causality in traditional literary works. He seems to be secretly telling you that such a structure is self-deception and really lacks the foundation of life. He established a new artistic structure for you, created another real world in his works of art, and at the same time showed that he was tired of secular spiritual character and secretly pointed out a new direction for mankind to seek liberation, although such efforts were superficial and not deep enough in the text. But we can know that this is the result of philosophy's in-depth thinking about human destiny.
References:
Ma Yuan. Fiction [Z] Beijing: Writers Publishing House, 1997, p. 40.
About the author: Lin Min, (1987-), a native of Guang 'an, Sichuan, is studying for a master's degree in Chongqing Normal University, majoring in modern and contemporary literature.