Open AccessTHE VOICE OF FRENCH REALISM IN YU HUA’S AND SU TONG’S FICTION
Author(s) -
Alberto Castelli,
Jiang Huiyu 蒋惠聿
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
folia linguistica et litteraria/folia linguistica et litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2337-0955
pISSN - 1800-8542
DOI - 10.31902/fll.36.2021.7
Subject(s) - realism , cynicism , aside , magic realism , postmodernism , ideology , literature , narrative , philosophy , subjectivity , key (lock) , idealism , aesthetics , art , epistemology , politics , law , ecology , political science , biology
Chinese postmodern literature, or post-Mao fiction, comes with disillusionment among the intellectuals and cynicism among the fictional characters. According to this line of thinking, narrative enters a theoretical discourse that leaves aside the former ideological imprint and moves within the frame of realism. As in the experience of the nineteenth century French realism, Su Tong’s and Yu Hua’s fiction describe a process of Bildungsroman that is never accomplished. A crude Darwinian weltanschauung seems to be the key to understanding.