Looking at the history of contemporary Chinese novels, starting from the 1980s, novels have finally returned to the beginning of enlightenment decades ago. Although it is a starting point, it is also gratifying. After all, a starting point is better than nothing at all. The starting point is strong, and the beginning of the starting point also means the beginning of hope. Another ten years have passed like this, and a large number of literati have also complained for ten years, using their pens to vent all their complaints in the past thirty years. Here comes the new nineties.
In the 1990s, the works began to make some progress. After all, ten years had passed, and the complaints had almost been vented, so Jia Pingwa's "Desolate Capital" was born. In this era, the keen The literati discovered a new thing, and they saw that this thing would definitely bring everyone a new self-understanding in the future, which is personal "desire".
From enlightenment to the great strides forward in society, desire is an important driving force. During this period, Yu Hua’s "Brothers" also wrote about topics related to desire. The turmoil of desire, although it brought prosperity, but the literati also saw complications, that is, hidden dangers to mental health.
They then left the countryside one after another and began to write about the so-called prosperous scene of urban desire. Although Jia Pingwa’s "Abandoned City" is an urban theme, we can also see that the so-called "abandoned city" of the times began to surge in "Abandoned City". "Mainstream spirit", this spirit is the discovery and affirmation of desire. I wonder if the author is blindly obedient. He seems to have not fully adapted to the city, so he feels that Xijing is like an urban-rural fringe. The theme of the city has a Rural way of thinking.
In "Abandoned Capital", through the emotional entanglements between the protagonist Zhuang Zhidie and multiple women, we see this kind of asymmetrical relationship between people, which all comes from the worship of identity. Obviously There is a bit of literati narcissism and a lack of urban identity equality. In many works of this era, they no longer have the urge to write epics like Chen Zhongshi and Lu Yao, and they have no time at all. concept.
This is a way of using space to write stories, using physical feelings instead of mental thinking, ignoring time and instead presenting the confusion and pain of this sinking desire in a profound and detailed way. This concept was missing in the history of novels in the previous decades. Since the 1990s, they have seen the irresistible social reality brought about by this commercial culture, which is the stubborn disease of desire.
In the past few decades, the stories written about people and countries were flat no matter how they were written. Now they have begun to write about people’s desires. No matter how they are written, they are like a bottomless pit. There are actually many omitted grids in the text. Some scenes cannot be expressed in words and can only be left to our readers’ imagination.
In a sense, "The Wasted City" brings us a spiritual consumption. The author no longer makes any contribution to anyone, and completely returns to the novel itself. If the 1980s were the beginning of enlightenment, then the 1990s may be the real starting point of the novel.
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