What does Yu Hua's novel A Reality say and express?

Yu Hua's A Reality subverts the traditional theoretical emotional model and describes the serial revenge and recurrent killing between dehumanized brothers. From unintentional harm to children, to intentional killing of adults, until the final destruction. Taking a family in it runs in the family as the background, this paper describes ugliness to people, and makes people deeply realize the cruelty and ugliness of the real world through the behavioral ugliness and psychological ugliness of grandparents, grandchildren, mothers and children, couples and brothers.

Yu Hua vividly depicts ugliness with a keen artistic feeling in his novel creation. He went deep into the darkest place of human nature and presented us with a unique artistic world with his gloomy, sharp and cold style.

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Creation background

A Truth is the writing process of the author Yu Hua from 1986 to 1998. After more than ten years of long nights and those sunny or cloudy days, what did the years leave behind?

His memory can't restore his past life, but occasionally reminds us: What did you have in the past? Moreover, this kind of reminder is often proud of tampering, but people also need to steal memories to satisfy their inner vanity and enrich their past lives. Memories appear after the years disappear, just like a straw floating in front of the drowning person, and self-redemption is just a symbol.

works appreciation

A reality? Every novel written by Yu Hua in 1986- 1987 is an allegory. He tried to construct a closed world of personal novels, through which he gave the outside world an image model that he thought was true. This shows a strong impulse to explain the world, as if a young man suddenly found himself holding the secret of the world and couldn't wait to spread it everywhere.

There is a surprise in his superficial imitation: in fact, it is the latter, not the former, that has produced a new perspective to observe the world and indeed discovered the other side of the world. However, the narrative effect of "no self" he deliberately pursued during this period forced him to create a mask: an indifferent narrator. Therefore, his indifference rather than his shock left a deep impression on the readers at that time.

Baidu Encyclopedia-A Kind of Reality