| dc.description.abstract | My thesis talks about one of Wang Wen-hsing’s books, “Family Catastrophe”. I try to make those contents in order of time featured with the topic of “recall” and the spirit of “artistry”. Besides that, I attempt to discuss how Wang artistically presents these contents with his experiences within his life, too. The way Wang wrote the book as a “recaller” is popular these days, but rare in the sixties. Also, the scenes with a number of Japanese architectures, like Kishu Ann where the author lived, witnessed not only the history of Taiwan in Japan-occupied period for 50 years, but also the common memories integrating different cultures among different peoples. These cultures are realistically presented through many pieces in daily life. The main character Fan Ye completed his life with both his growth and his traumas, and projected how servants in government authorities lived their poor life in the dormitories in the sixties. The readers could easily feel the atmosphere of the whole society only at that time.
In chapter 2 of this thesis, I try to connect how the author Wang Wen-hsing recalled his life and the purpose as well as the literary effects that Wang wants to tell us that the main character Fan Ye is the author Wang himself first. Next, I would like to introduce the history on the cultures in Taiwan from 1895 to 1960s with expressions of episodes of the character’s stories. In chapter 3, I want to deconstruct the way the author poeticizes and dramatizes “Family Catastrophe” with his life and his own personalized dictions and the spirit of expressionism. We find out that if “Family Catastrophe” is a musical drama, the scenes are real though the characters are “virtual”. However, those “virtual” characters and stories successfully help every reader recall his or her common feelings of those years.
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