View on " to Escape"
Introduction
Su Tong is a pen name of Tong Zhonggui. He was born in 1963 in Suzhou and now living in Nanjing with his family. Su Tong is not only a greater writer which 20th century last stages appears, but also he is the representative writer of the vanguard literature and is one of the founders of "neo-historicism" novel (Jing). Vanguard literature is a kind of literature, which is against the traditional culture and deliberate violation of the principles of conventional creation and appreciation of the literary habits, and one-sided pursuit of artistic form and style of the novel. As usually, the vanguard literature writers through different kind of suggests, metaphor, symbol, association and imagery to explore people's inner life. Otherwise, the narrative structure method of vanguard literature is also different from with the traditional literature. Compared with traditional literature, many of the vanguard literature are not focusing on talking about a complete story. It pays more attention on how the story out (Tang). Su Tong as a pioneer of the vanguard literature, his works is followed by the style of the vanguard literature. In the Su Tong’s novel, the main theme are made up of the desire words in human nature, rebelling against and escaping with the life of destiny and constructing the solving of the history and culture hard (Jing). “To Escape” is one of his outstanding works. The main story of “To Escape” talks about Chen Sanmai’s life and three times he escapes. Chen Sanmai spends his whole life for escaping from something him afraid until he died. This paper will begin with a discussion of the story's spatial structure and an exploration into the symbolic meaning of the kites in relation to the Chen Sanmai’s life.
Spatial Structure of “To Escape”
Firstly I will deconstruct the spatial structure of “To Escape”. Spatial structure, as one element of narrative structure, is a kind of the framework of a story, which shows how a story is told by the writer.
Su Tong is a pen name of Tong Zhonggui. He was born in 1963 in Suzhou and now living in Nanjing with his family. Su Tong is not only a greater writer which 20th century last stages appears, but also he is the representative writer of the vanguard literature and is one of the founders of "neo-historicism" novel (Jing). Vanguard literature is a kind of literature, which is against the traditional culture and deliberate violation of the principles of conventional creation and appreciation of the literary habits, and one-sided pursuit of artistic form and style of the novel. As usually, the vanguard literature writers through different kind of suggests, metaphor, symbol, association and imagery to explore people's inner life. Otherwise, the narrative structure method of vanguard literature is also different from with the traditional literature. Compared with traditional literature, many of the vanguard literature are not focusing on talking about a complete story. It pays more attention on how the story out (Tang). Su Tong as a pioneer of the vanguard literature, his works is followed by the style of the vanguard literature. In the Su Tong’s novel, the main theme are made up of the desire words in human nature, rebelling against and escaping with the life of destiny and constructing the solving of the history and culture hard (Jing). “To Escape” is one of his outstanding works. The main story of “To Escape” talks about Chen Sanmai’s life and three times he escapes. Chen Sanmai spends his whole life for escaping from something him afraid until he died. This paper will begin with a discussion of the story's spatial structure and an exploration into the symbolic meaning of the kites in relation to the Chen Sanmai’s life.
Spatial Structure of “To Escape”
Firstly I will deconstruct the spatial structure of “To Escape”. Spatial structure, as one element of narrative structure, is a kind of the framework of a story, which shows how a story is told by the writer.