Qian Zhang

Qian Zhang

15 Dec. 2022

New realistic novels, Material wasteland, Spiritual wasteland, Rebellious wasteland.

New realistic novels often use the imagery of "wasteland" to express the living conditions of ordinary people, mainly to present the material and spiritual "wastelands" in people's daily life. By showing the living conditions of people struggling at the bottom of society and the direct conflict between the characters' life instincts and social attributes, new realistic novels reveal the meaning of the existence of the "wasteland" and expect new sprouts to break through on the "wasteland". New realistic novels are a rebellion against the "false" life that was almost optimistic before the 1980s under the "conceptualization" of ideological discourse, and they replace the "collective imagination" of the traditional grand narrative with the legitimacy of individual existence in everyday life.

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