What are the characteristics of Wang Xiaobo's writing?

Wang Xiaobo has a narrator, Wang Er, in almost every one of his novels, and Wang Er is imbued with some of Wang Xiaobo's traits, which creates an equivocal identification between Wang Er and Wang Xiaobo.

In Manshou Temple, Wang Xiaobo writes that Wang Er is unwilling to do what the leader told him to do, and then he creates a novel, which emphasizes the falsity of all narratives at the very beginning, and Wang Er's cynicism reminds readers of Wang Xiaobo's narrative posture, so that they no longer expect to get a meaning from Wang Xiaobo's narratives, and instead, they feel a strong sense of nothingness, as a result of the fact that at the very beginning, it is stipulated that there must be an inevitable the end of nothingness.

In The Age of Black Iron, Wang Er himself is involved in the management of the Black Iron Apartment, which makes one think of Wang Xiaobo's own complicity with the world. In this way, the initial strong psychological impact is mitigated, the narrator becomes less credible, and the narrator's words become, in a sense, an accumulation of symbols, so that a sense of absurdity is born.

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Themes of the work

Wang Xiaobo's Silver Age and Black Iron Age are anti-utopian novels that highlight the writer's concern for the state of the nation's existence. They are humanistic ideas that emphasize the value of human beings, their dignity and their natural nature. Human rights awareness has become a global issue. What the anti-utopian novels reveal is the crisis of the "individual".

Wang Xiaobo uses this particular era of the Cultural Revolution as a breakthrough to reveal the absurd experience of existence in the traditional national culture, and the author reflects on and criticizes this absurd history.

Thinking

Russell's liberal thinking greatly influenced Wang Xiaobo's thinking and writing. What Wang Xiaobo pursues and promotes in his texts is the spirit of liberalism, and he writes his texts with liberal ideas, and he uses liberal ideas to dominate the historical world in his texts.

With liberalism, he dialogues with the characters in his writing and the history that has passed away, and with liberalism, he attacks and satirizes the existence of everything that is not free and irrational. Therefore, Wang Xiaobo's history is the history of liberal thought.

Baidu Encyclopedia--Wang Xiaobo