英文摘要 |
This article investigated how Li Yu's novel of ''First snow along the river'' intertextualizes with Lu Xun's novel ''In the upper floor of a bistro''. It is noticed that, instead of being ''gazed'' by the ''abandoned garden'' like Liu Da-ren, which may represent the hometown/fatherland/China, described in Lu Xun's novel, Li Yu also gaze-back at the fatherland to criticize its aesthetic guidance provided by Mao in 1942 and China's social development from then on. This paper argues that the narrator of this novel constantly gaze the garden in the hotel and depict the scenery in detail, in addition to express her opinion toward her fatherland, also shows her ideal ''landscape'' combining the classic poetic China in her memory and the realistic ''vulgar China'' she experienced in her visit during the Cultural Revolution period. Li Yu's discovery and production of this scenery can be interpreted as an intention to provide her fatherland in finding new direction some feasible suggestions. |