Wencheng by Yu Hua:Looking for a Fictional City and Loving Concrete People
Yu Hua's new work Wencheng tells the story of Lin Xiangfu's unsuccessful search for Wencheng.The plot construction of"searching for the city"ultimately points to thinking about"concrete people".The novel bridges the unresolved moral problem in the main part with the narrative way of"supplement",and jumps out of the barrier of"legend"by describing the struggle of individuals in the turbulent historical circumstances-"legend"is only the"technique"of Yu Hua to write the fate of characters,and the human power displayed by individuals in the turbulent circumstances is the"Tao"behind it.Yu Hua's interrogation of"human"is a new at-tempt after his creation is mature,and the existence value and spirit of individual life constitute the inner tension of his works.