The Metaverse of History and Spirit: On the Metaverse Schema of Literature in the New Era

Abstract

The Metaverse and literary creation have formed a distinct identity and connection at the level of overall ethics, both of which are based on human’s true perception of the world and explore and present the essence of the world and life. In Chinese literature of the new era, the creative practice of Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, and other writers has shown the pattern of the Metaverse. Mo Yan and other writers have constructed a deconstructive historical model with the elements of desire, life, and unconsciousness as the core, highlighting the disordered and nihilistic nature of history, while Yan Lianke and other writers have created the morbid and alienated picture of the human spiritual world with the two narrative models of “prison” and “dream”. Because the works of the above-mentioned writers often show the characteristics of serialization, intertextuality, large volume, and multi-direction, they have formed the historical Metaverse and the spiritual Metaverse of literature in the new era, which is full of allegorical criticism and reflection on reality and expresses the writers’ deep anxiety and infinite compassion for the current situation.