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    ¡ª¡ªReading Xili's novel "The Pain of Ruins"

    Zhou Siming

    Since the turn of the century, the process of urbanization has been accelerating. Apart from lamenting the rapid development of science and technology, people feel more at a loss.  At the same time, the issue of people's emotional destination also presents some new features in the new century that are different from previous eras: modern, traditional, crossed between modern and traditional, or neither modern nor traditional  The "alternative emotional" type of  all kinds and all kinds of surprises.  Xili's novel "The Pain of the Ruins" reproduces this social phenomenon.  Literature is different from philosophy. The vocation of philosophy is to reveal, while the function of literature is to present.  The novel "The Pain of the Ruins" follows the will of literature and presents the emotional life of modern urbanites with vivid and sensible artistic images.

    Times are developing.  The new world outlook, outlook on life, and new emotional value orientation make the love, marriage, and moral forms of modern urbanites present their own different trends.  Some of them, like shyly in the work, dismiss or even mock traditional morality.  In her opinion, true love, pure and noble, are all ridiculous, obsolete and modern utopia.  What she wants is the moment, enjoyment, money, and lust.  She expresses her lustful instincts and unconventional emotions in her words.  A woman like shyly, when she (he) grows up and enters the urban society, when she (he) submerges herself in the noisy urban river of impetuous vanity and philistines, she (he) often uses some extreme methods to  Express your inner anxieties and desires.  She (he) often expresses their way of life with laughter, scolding and emotional catharsis that are very understandable and acceptable to humans.  In this regard, Xili's novels are similar to a batch of urban novels in the 1990s, such as "I Love the Dollar", "What Is Trash and What Is Love", "Do People Need Saunas?", etc.  .

    In the novel, in addition to portraying a philistine, secular, and enjoyment-oriented character like shyly, the author also has, of course, a character like Luo Zi who advocates oriental maximalism.  The image of orientalized understanding and pursuit.  Although there are many characters in the work, in essence, it mainly tells the story of a man and two women.  The painter Luo Zi is a relatively traditional and orthodox person.  There is actually no emotion at all between him and shyly. It was the latter who seized him and entangled him with his own secular and philistine hands.  The woman who consumes and annihilates men with sex.  With Luo Zi's strong perseverance and limited financial resources, of course he couldn't satisfy Shyly's various desires and demands, and even committed suicide to break off his emotional connection with her.  And the relationship between Luo Zi and his former lover Joan is the type of mutual acquaintance.  The two agree with each other in terms of interests and life, which makes a harmonious communication between the two.  Although Joan has long been a wife, her husband is far from her spiritually.  Husband Tang Ren found that Joan was gradually estranged from him, so he sent a private detective to track down his wife, and their marriage was in jeopardy.  In the end, Qiong and Luo Zi went back to Sichuan together to visit the mysterious "Sanxingdui" and review the history and culture of ancient Shu. Unfortunately, they encountered the 5-12 Wenchuan Earthquake and mudslides. Qiong died because of saving others.  Affection and tenderness are always stored in the depths of Luo Zi's soul.  This is clearly a tragedy.

    Xili is a writer who digs out and properly handles the essence of libidinal phenomenon, and carefully polishes the non-poetic daily life, making it shine with the brilliance of urban style and romantic brilliance.  In the book, shyly disdains to talk about ideals and occupations, and is only interested in her own instinctive needs. The sexual turmoil in adolescence and the desire for fame and fortune become the main characteristics of her distress and happiness, and she always indulges her lust endlessly  The novel uses a language with a sense of jumping and strong impact.  In shyly's mind, sexual venting has become an important weapon for her survival.  When she is happy, when she is frustrated, and when her material desires are not satisfied, she will use this unique weapon of young women to deal with the male prey she is aiming at.  Her life is messed up by the existence of the logos of sexual indulgence.  Such a person is only one step away from a madman.  "These people obviously don't have any noble morals at all, no ideals, no ambitions, no self-esteem, and no self-expression and individuality" (Wang Jiaxin "Nightingale in its own time") She (he) lives completely by instinct, drifting with the crowd,  Completely rely on libido to carry on their life.  Looking at Xili's novels, she is willing to write about sex as the essence of the life of urban men and women. Although some characters in her writing are absurd, deformed and exaggerated, and lack the corresponding universality, in Xili's view, it is not enough to be otherwise  to express the essence of life.  With female hands, she directly tore off the life masks of urban men and women, exposing their various performances in the face of their self-essence.  The author is often able to accurately grasp the pain points of urban life and start the narrative.  In the inertial field of "sex plus politics" in current novel creation, Xili's novels show some restraint.The "sex" component.  But the purpose of her writing about sex is to show the living beings of urban life, to make all kinds of people appear in front of the magic mirror of the novel.

    In analysis, this book still belongs to the category of "New Realism".

    It is worth noting that after the "new realism" vented its indifference of judging ugliness and overflowing evil, some intriguing changes have gradually taken place, and the wave of "new realism" is gradually receding.  In similar novels including Xili's novel, we have witnessed the living conditions of contemporary "new human beings".  In the contemporary bustling metropolis, those male and female "hippies" pass the time in pursuit of sensory stimulation.  A typical point of view of them is: "Isn't the so-called happiness just the forgetting of pain and troubles? What is needed is this kind of forgetting." "Our philosophy of life is reflected in this, that is, simple material consumption,  Unfettered spiritual games, believe in the inner impulse at any time, obey the burning of the soul, do not resist the improvisational madness, worship all kinds of desires, exchange all kinds of ecstasy of life including the mysteries of sexual desire, and at the same time treat kitsch  Superficial, petty bourgeois, and local ruffian styles should be kept at a respectful distance."

    This is an inevitable manifestation of the secular trend of thought.  The trend of secularization itself will differentiate into different realms of life and art due to various political, social, cultural, and psychological factors: there are serious secularization, and there are cynical secularizations; there are indifferent and numb secularizations, and there are also  The secularization of insanity.  It can be said that the continuous differentiation of the secularization trend itself is also a concrete manifestation of the rich and changeable life and the multicultural interaction.  In this sense, Xili's novels have their own value.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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