The Intercultural Construction in Malraux's Fictions

Philosophy and Culture 36 (5):5-19 (2009)
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Muller Ma Hou fiction with the characters and the world of fiction and cross-cultural imagination, and is the author of "human destiny" philosophy of management of the concrete, is to convey the author's philosophical and cultural symbols. The early twentieth century, the face of a crisis of values ​​of Western culture, Hou Ma Muller tried to find new oriental culture inspiration for Western civilization Fuxing into vitality. He does not follow the appearance of life, but the current implementation of the Bank "transformation of imagination," to guide humans beyond self, beyond the time limit in an attempt to question the future of human dignity. Muller Hou Ma through the relocation and cross-borrowing, in the framework of the Chinese revolution in the philosophy of success In order to find the abnormal carrier and adventure field. In the Eastern and Western civilizations collision and intersection, the horse Muller Hou conducted In order thinking shift and switch, the story location in Asia, and awareness of the coordinate system is in the West, giving In order to fiction extraordinary uniqueness and moral nature, Order refreshing. The world and characters built in Andre Malraux's fictions possess a quality of invention and imagination. They are the concrete representations of the author's philosophy, "the condition of human beings", as well as the symbols which deliver his cultural philosophical speculation. In the early twentieth century, fronting the value crisis of the western culture, Malraux tried to search for new inspirations from the eastern culture in order to inject fresh energy to the revival of western civilization. He did not abide by life's appearance but switched the imagination towards the reality , guiding people to exceed themselves and surpass the limit of time so as to inquire human dignity. Using relocation and removal, Malraux successfully found the carrier of philosophy and the foreign field for exploration under the framework of Chinese Revolution. Through the convergence and collision between eastern and western civilizations, Malraux conducted the displacement and switchover of ideas. The story takes place in Asia while the true consciousness is located in the West thus endows the fiction with extraordinary specificity and morals which is truly refreshing

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H. C. B. Liu
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