"Evil sons" become male marginal bodies: they are hysterical, depressed and anxious, and even have multiple personalities or emotional instability, nervous, excited, crazy, masochistic and even commit suicide; The fanatical pursuit between the same sex shows the numbness and evasive attitude towards long-term feelings, and the crazy bite of the collective and the hidden escape of the individual form a great deformity. In the text, the relationship between the father who represents the family authority and the eccentric son is also extremely subtle, chasing each other but looking for each other. At the end of the article, we see Bai Xianyong's beautiful expectation for the relationship between father and son, and there is still a faint light.
What the characters in Evil Son have in common is: a body burning with overwhelming pain and a lonely and crazy heart. The author uses the instinctive behavior of animals to outline the appearance of these people's primitive desires. This is the author's painstaking efforts to deliberately turn such a dark love world into a virgin forest, leaving everyone with only the most primitive biological instinct. So when they hid in the shabby bed in the hotel attic,
Bai Xianyong's explanation of their contradictions may be to make us sympathize with these marginalized people who violate social customs or moral expectations from the perspective of human feelings. Although homosexuals are also gay in spirit, they show their sensual side very humbly.
Narrative mode
The Evil Son describes the ethnic groups living at the bottom of society, who suffer the most "discrimination, ridicule and even insult". There is always a deep sadness in the novel. The characters in the story are a group of teenagers who resist the real society. With the development of the plot, fierce confrontation with the external environment is common, and the fierce emotional conflict between the protagonists is full of strong dramatic tension, which makes readers seem unwilling to stay out of it. However, the author can keep the introverted and delicate language style consistent, maintain an objective and calm creative attitude from beginning to end, and not vent subjectively, thus maintaining the integrity of his works. Among them, it is not only influenced by the implicit and calm aesthetic concepts and poetic creation techniques in China's traditional culture, but also shows the modernity consciousness in the West.
Bai Xianyong has a profound literary background, and has extensively dabbled in and deeply studied China's classical literature. This is manifested in the extensive use of plain and rough words and full use of images in Evil Son, thus indirectly expressing one's feelings and achieving the purpose of creation. The concise pen and ink, however, expresses extremely rich connotation, which makes the capacity of the novel expand invisibly and has unique aesthetic significance.
The book contains Bai Xianyong's unique life experience and emotional experience, which is bound to be influenced by subjective value judgment in the process of creation. The author skillfully adopts a narrative strategy of fixation. The author quietly retreats behind the novel, holding an attitude that has nothing to do with himself, keeping a certain distance from the characters, and his subjective feelings are carefully hidden; With the development of the novel, readers can inadvertently experience the sadness behind the story through many "facts". The relationship between father and son and the subversion of traditional culture
In the feudal autocratic society of China for thousands of years, the concepts of Jun Jun, ministers and father and son are extremely orthodox. However, the conflict between father and son in Evil Son is another scene. Because here, these fathers, who came from the mainland and moved to Taiwan Province Province, are confronted with an "alternative" sexual orientation that is incompatible with China's tradition and ethical norms. As we all know, according to China's traditional ethics, it is natural for men and women to combine to carry on the family line. China old adage says, "There are three kinds of unfilial, and the last one is the biggest. Therefore, the attitude of the father towards his son in Evil Son is the attitude of the mainstream culture in China towards homosexuality. In the eyes of these fathers who abide by feudal ethics, homosexuality and homosexual sex are unnatural, outrageous, absurd and unreasonable! In the eyes of fathers, this is a violation of morality and the whole supreme rule.
Bai Xianyong put his imaginary scene in the story of Evil Son. In the pedigree of Peeping into Life, readers can know that Li Qing's retired military father, Wang Xielong's senior official father and Wang He's military father, Fu Chongshan, are undoubtedly powerful representatives of China's rigorous, standardized and upright traditional patriarchal image, and are models and symbols of morality and traditional society.
The evil son appeared as a homosexual, denied his image and responsibility, even made his son sick and ugly, angered his father, and changed the relationship between father and son from obedience to alienation and opposition.
The estrangement between father and son was so hard and cruel that Li Qing was afraid to see his father when he got home. On the other hand, he could see that even if the family accepted the betrayed son, his father was always in a position where he could not give in. Therefore, taking Wang's father and son and Fu's father as examples, Wang Xielong was not able to return home until his father died, and Fu's father regretted it only after knowing that his son had committed suicide. Whether the son dies or the father dies, there is an ironic hint here: in dealing with family betrayal, only death can lift the curse-but isn't the separation of heaven and man a permanent isolation and a permanent curse?
In the eyes of these fathers who abide by traditional ethics, homosexuality and homosexual sex are unnatural, outrageous, absurd and unreasonable. Father's attitude towards homosexuality is actually the attitude of China society and mainstream culture in China towards homosexuality. Facts show that, at least in the 1960s and 1970s in Taiwan Province Province, the gay community was still an extremely marginal existence. In this conflict, neither side can judge by simple "right" or "wrong", just as values cannot be judged by good or bad, just because they stand from different angles.