Going Beyond and Looking Upwards——On the Philosophical Connotation of LU Nei's Novel Compassion

LU Nei's novel Compassion is his "middle-aged transformation". Although the novel is about the fate changes of state-owned factories and workers living in factories for nearly half a century, it has its own metaphysical pursuit and rich philosophical implications. Specifically, in the repetitive writing of death, Mercy pointed out the logic of the fate from birth to death and from nothing to no life, and asked how man can win in life and how to obtain his life in death. In answering this question, the novel mainly expresses different life expectancy by comparing different attitudes of the master, Gensheng, SU Xiaodong and Shuisheng to the factory order to convey their own beliefs in life. The novel finally confirms the life belief that Shuisheng can both surpass downward and search upward in daily life.