The Death of an Auteur:Qiu Huadong’s Confessionat Noon and the Spiritual Crisis of Intellectuals  

作　　者：Fang-yu LI 

机构地区：[1]Division of Humanities,New College of Florida,FL 34243,USA

出　　处：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》2020年第1期76-98,共23页中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Written by Qiu Huadong in 2000,Confession at Noon(Zhengwu de gongci)is a novel about the life of a renowned auteur one year after his suicide.Set at the end of the twentieth century,the story highlights the social and political change of the 1990s and its impact on the spiritual condition of intellectuals.The novel also addresses the changing role of writers as they confront new challenges presented by the rapid modernization and economic progress at the turn of the century.In this paper,I illustrate the ways in which Qiu unravels the spiritual agony of intellectuals through the portrayal of a film director’s dramatic life.I focus particularly on how Qiu uses narrative devices such as intertexuality and pastiche to illuminate the spiritual crisis and changing social position of intellectuals in the 1990s,and how he inserts fictional selves in the storytelling process to rethink his role as a writer-intellectualin the new era.

关 键 词：QIU Huadong INTELLECTUALS WRITERS identity SPIRITUAL CRISIS 

分 类 号：H32[语言文字—法语]