Liu Naou

Liu Naou

Liu Naou, a native of Liuying District, Tainan City, Taiwan; a novelist and film producer in the period of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, studied in Shanghai's Sinian University; his writings follow the modernist line and have contacts with Shi Zhecun; as a representative of urban scenery, he describes the fanaticism of urban men and women, drawing on the skills of Japanese new sensation school; he has translated Yoko Riichi's novel collection erotic culture 》In 1940, he was shot in Shanghai. It is said that he was involved in a gang dispute and that he died at the hands of Kuomintang agents.

Profile

Liu Naou, born in 1905, formerly known as Liu Canbo and pseudonym Luo Sheng, is a native of Tainan, Taiwan. He grew up in Japan, studied in Tokyo Castle Peak college, and graduated from Keio University, majoring in arts. He is proficient in Japanese and English.

After returning to China, he studied French in the special French class of Shanghai Sinian University (he was a classmate with Du Heng, Dai Wangshu and Shi Zhecun); in the late 1920s, he tended to progress and founded the first-line bookstore in 1928. After being checked, he ran the Shuimo Bookstore again; he published progressive books and periodicals such as "Marxist literature and art series" (later renamed "scientific art series") and founded "trackless train" for half a month In 1929, he co edited with Shi Zhecun, Xu Xiacun, Dai Wangshu and others the monthly magazine of new literature and art in Shanghai, published some progressive works, which were later seized by the Kuomintang authorities; later, he founded the magazine of modern film; in the January 28 Incident, the Shuimo bookstore was destroyed, and then he went to Japan.

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he returned to China in 1939 and was ordered by the Wang puppet government to organize Wen Wei Po. He served as the president of Wen Wei Po, but was assassinated on September 3, 1939 (1940). It is said that he was assassinated by KMT agents, but according to Shi Zhecun's memory, he was assassinated by Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng's gang. The reason is that there is a contradiction between gambling and hooligans.

He has a collection of short stories, such as urban scenery, etc.

Character evaluation

Liu Naou is the first experimenter of the novel of "New Feeling School". He founded the semimonthly of "trackless train" in September 1928, marking the beginning of the practice of "New Feeling School" novel in China. His collection of short stories "urban scenery" is the first collection of "New Feeling School" novel in modern China. Mu Shiying and Shi Zhecun push the "New Feeling School" novel to maturity and application In addition, the psychological analysis of the characters highlights the feelings and impressions of real life.

Liu Naou's novels adapt to the fast and changeable speed of urban Shanghai, express the emotional desire of men and women in the city, objectively expose the depravity, emptiness and boredom of the leisure class, and subjectively appreciate this diffuse decadent tendency. His works have developed in the flexible use of modernist techniques to express the modern emotions of urban people, and the sense of expression of the characters is fresh and rich.

Liu Naou's novels also focus on the relationship between men and women, emphasizing the driving effect of life instinct, especially sexual desire, on people's behavior and psychology, and the abnormal urban state of money society and human relations. The characters in his novels rush to seek satisfaction in the depression of sexual desire.

Work style

The prosperity of urban literature is a trend in the 1930s. There are urban narratives in the works of Beijing school, Shanghai school and left-wing writers. However, compared with Lao She's civilian perspective, Beijing school's aversion and hostility towards the city, and left-wing rational mentality, the new feeling school provides new literature with a more novel and profound way of understanding the city. Liu Na Ou uses his modern emotions to feel the metropolis of Shanghai City life, experience the living situation of urban people.

In his literary works, Liu Na'ou takes the city itself as an independent aesthetic object for the first time. Secondly, he subverts the tradition by analyzing the moral decay and poetic loss of urban life. Finally, he uses modern techniques such as stream of consciousness and montage to make Shanghai a metropolis that is no longer a vague existence hidden behind the narrative of characters, but an independent aesthetic object Existence, the modern life of the city has come to the front stage, for the first time to enter the reader's sight with an independent appearance. As Wu Fuhui said, the "century" flavor of 20th century literature refers to the urban characteristics of Liu Naou's urban novels.

1、 On the unique cognition and feeling of the city: Liu Naou, an expert of the new feeling school who is addicted to skyscrapers, trains, street lights and cheongsam, has shown his rich, prosperous, licentious, demonic, hedonic, deep, complex and so on.

All aspects of urban life live in Liu Naou's works, just as Shi Shumei thinks: Liu Naou is obviously keen on describing urban landscapes, taking them as his gaze and eroticizing them. In most of Liu Naou's novels, he will use metaphorical language to narrate all aspects of urban life and its material culture. Even the moral decay of this city is quite charming under such language. Liu Na'ou is very obsessed with urban landscape. A series of urban landscapes are presented in Liu Na'ou's works and painted with the color of urban materialism, which has become a different kind of beautiful landscape in the history of modern literature.

2、 On the subversion of traditional morality and life experience: he describes the absurd tragedy of real life with sharp brushwork. For example, in the novel game, the author describes a woman who takes love as a game and associates with two men at the same time. When she decides to marry one of them, she gives her virginity to the other. The novel shows some fashionable women's outlook on life and life style at that time The concept of love reveals the loss of morality in the real world; the left-wing writers at that time thought that his works had the shortcomings of "non Chinese", that is, "non reality", which was not fair and objective enough. Liu Naou, with his unique sensitivity, was aware of the crux of the City, and made the most real analysis and display of it.

3、 More montage, stream of consciousness, sensationalism and psychoanalysis: Liu Na Ou's active pursuit of "new" literary style brought heterogeneous characteristics to the Chinese literary world under the influence of left-wing literature in the 1920s and 1930s. His novels used defamiliarized language, montage and stream of consciousness, which overturned the traditional creation mode Don't create a new style. Du Heng thinks that Liu Na'ou first adopted the technique suitable for urban description. The technique Du Heng said is the artistic expression technique with obvious modernity, such as stream of consciousness, montage, psychological monologue, etc.

Traditional Chinese literature mostly displays characters' characters through language and action, but less direct psychological description. It is a unique technique of modern literature to display characters' inner feelings by using stream of consciousness and montage. Traditional Chinese literature, especially novels, mostly adopts time sequence, in which there are many techniques such as narration and flashback, but on the whole, it is a kind of linear narration However, whether it is linear structure or network structure, the flow of the plot is coherent, and the great leap of time and space and the character's psychology is a new attempt of modern novels and one of the main characteristics of Liu Naou's urban novels.

Main works

an anthology

Quilt

ALadytoKeepYouCompany

Forever smile

A collection of Novels

Urban scenery

game

scenery

flow

Bone of passion

Two time insensitivity

Etiquette and hygiene

residual

equation

attempted murder

Under the equator -- to Dai Wangshu, a poet on his way to France

Chinese PinYin : Liu Na Ou