An Exploration of the Consciousness of "Ugliness" in MoYan's and Morrison's Works

As the representative Nobel Prize winners in China and America, MoYan and Morrison can be regarded as the artists of the appreciation of "ugliness". Morrison's works show the characteristics of the appreciation of "Ugliness" from the 60s of 20th Century in America, whereas MoYan's works reveal the characteristics of "Ugliness" from the 80s in China. This paper aims to expose the ugliness of people's characters and lives through a depiction of the ugliness of appearance、the ugliness of nature、the ugliness of words and the ugliness of images, thus pointing out that the source of all these "ugliness" is the ugliness of history. The purpose of the appreciation of "ugliness" is a pursuit of beauty through the recognition and the change of the "ugliness".