How Wang Meng's "Voice of Spring" Contrasting Technique is Embodied

Wang Meng has been called "a representative writer of the latest literary trend". The Voice of Spring is a masterpiece of Wang Meng's "stream of consciousness" approach. The Voice of Spring abandons the traditional novel's narrative mode and utilizes a character-centered radial structure. On his way back to his hometown during the Spring Festival, Yue Zhifeng, an engineering physicist who has returned from an overseas study tour, is in a stuffy car, and his "consciousness" is flowing. What he sees, hears, thinks and feels reflects the colorful social life in the era of transition between the old and the new, conveys the "melody of spring" and expresses the theme of new opportunities in the new period.

The theme of the novel is "singing about new opportunities in life", but it does not emphasize on characterization, storyline narration, or normal chronological order. He borrowed the Western "stream of consciousness" technique, but it is not pure Western "stream of consciousness". The "radioactive" structure of the novel has an end point, which is the spiritual world of the main character sitting in the special environment of the compartment of a stuffed car. The novel is mainly about the associations and psychological states caused by the outside world on the hero's heart during the time and space switch, and it picks up the humanistic landscape of a specific time, with unique language structure and distinctive imagery, reflecting the hero's sorrow and happiness for the fate of the motherland, and his desire for the people of the motherland to come into the warmth of the spring. This is a true reflection of the writer's inner patriotic feelings, reflecting a lyrical prose charm.