From 65438 to 0976, Mo Yan joined the China People's Liberation Army, and served as monitor, security clerk, librarian, teacher and officer. During his four years as a librarian in the army, Mo Yan read a lot of literary books and read all the 1000 literary books in the library. He has also read many books on philosophy and history, including Hegel's Logic and Marx's Capital.
198 1 In May, Mo Yan's novel Rain on a Spring Night was published in Lianchi, a bimonthly literary magazine in Baoding, Hebei Province, becoming Mo Yan's first published novel. ?
In Mo Yan's novels, it is easy to find the influence of western modernist literature. This influence is various, including inner monologue, psychological analysis, feeling impression, hallucination and dream, inversion of time and space, etc. There are metaphors, symbols, predictions, mysteries and magic in magical realism; There are also exaggerations, distortions and absurdities in absurd plays; There are structuralism, sentimentalism, symbolism and so on.
Among western writers, Mo Yan admires two most, namely william faulkner and Garcí a Má rquez. The biggest feature of Mo Yan's novel structure is constant scene switching and time-space inversion, which has obvious characteristics of spatial form novel and echoes Faulkner's style from a distance. However, his reference to myths, legends and animal narratives is obviously of Garcí a Má rquez's magical realism.