What is a local novel?

The so-called local novel refers to a novel with strong local flavor and local color that describes hometown and rural life through memory and reorganization. It also refers to the novels in which a group of writers living in Beijing and Shanghai took familiar hometown customs as the theme in the early and mid-1920s, aiming at revealing the ignorance and backwardness of rural life under the patriarchal clan system and expressing homesickness. These writers include Fei Ming, Tai Jingnong, Peng and Xu Jie.

major feature

The main characteristics of local novels are as follows: first, the writer examines the local customs with a critical eye and sharply satirizes and criticizes ignorance and backwardness. Secondly, writers of local novels often describe their hometown people who are numb, ignorant and suffering with complex emotions of grief and indignation. Sympathy and criticism, satire and pity are intertwined, forming the aesthetic style of comedy and tragedy in local novels. Thirdly, when the authors of local novels criticize and describe the ignorant customs, insensitive humanity and bleak life of their hometown, they still can't restrain their attachment to their hometown, which is often mixed with a sense of loss, so most novels have a melancholy lyric tone.

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