英文摘要 |
Luo Yijun’s latest novel, West Xia Hotel (Xixia luguan), appears to be an abstruse text, which is also much longer than his other works. Is it a breakthrough, or a repetition and extension of his previous works? What esthetic traits does it possess and how it symptomatize them? This paper attempts to excavate the novel’s archaeological traces by a hermeneutics of the infant corpse. My interpretation is particularly based on Luo’s Dispelling Sorrow (Qian beihuai), via a mapping of the formation and evolution of Luo’s Injury Esthetics. This paper, on the one hand, retraces the border-crossing of esthetics and ethics as well as the significance of such an act. On the other hand, it explores the thematic variations in West Xia Hotel, and, by so doing, discusses the merits and demerits of the novel. |