루야오의 ‘도농 교차지대’와 은폐된 서사

Abstract

Lu Yao (路遙) is a realist who created best selling and best read works in 1980's in China. Therefore, he is definitely one of the authors representing the literary world in China in 1980's. However, to our surprise, Lu Yao just existed on the periphery of descriptions about Chinese literary history of 1980. Such an interesting phenomenon strongly implies existence of a certain inconsistency between the viewpoint of the literary world and the academia in China since the Reform and Opening and the viewpoint of readers who widely empathized with Lu Yao's critical mind suggested through his works and with his works. This writing was prepared on the critical mind that the inconsistency can be an important clue to reveal substantial contradictions and cracks exiting inside so-called New-era discourse in China since the Reform and Opening. Beginning with the critical mind, this work establishes the concept of 'The Urban-Rural Cross areas' raised by Lu Yao and 「RenSheng」 in which he first made his mark as an object of consideration. Novel 「RenSheng」 and concept of the 'The Urban-Rural Cross areas' simply showed reality faced by young rural intellectuals(Huixiang Zhiqing) who got education in turbulent period when Chinese society went to the Reform and Opening and social·historical meaning of agony felt by them in the reality. However, the critical mind was excluded and concealed by major discourses in the Reform and Opening period. If we can properly restore the excluded and concealed critical mind and historical meaning of the stories and also can shed new light thereon, we may obtain useful reference system to more abundantly understand contradictions inside the Chinese internal structure in the Reform and Opening period and then, to supplement the Chinese literary history of 1980's prepared by a strong influence of major discourses in the Reform and Opening period.