The Modern Aesthetic Approach To Xiao Qian's Fiction

Xiao Qian is a writer characterized by his unique writing style and vivid individuality of characters in modern Chinese literary history .With great faith he begins his fiction writing .One who does not have a deep and profound understanding of life and society ,he argues, will never produce something devoted to the time.Most of his early works reflect mainly the bitterness of his childhood and the hard life of the mass living at the bottom of society .The stories show the warmth and coldness of the world from a particular perspective,namely,children's eyes. Out of his amazingly sensitive and rich emotion of childhood . Xiao paid his own feeling ,simple but sincere. As a result , we can be deep touched by the precious frankness and nature .As a narrative strategy children's perspective possesses the aesthetic and cultural connotation ,taking on various style and features in the course of it appearance development and flourish . If we view the May 4th period as the worship of the child's heart , 1930s , the developing period of child 's perspective ,1940s, the mature period , then what we should discuss next is: Xiao Qian ,a writer who makes the child's angle as the main narrative method in his fiction writing , and by coincidence he was in the developing course of this style, is of the transitional significance in a way? Xiao Qian 's novel, characterized by its child's angle of view in narration , possesses doubtlessly a transitional feature, on the one hand , the appearance and development of child's literature in the May 4th new literary creation with the personal experience in childhood as the theme in 1930s; on the other hand ,the work of this kind enabled the possibility of in the works which take pains to catch child's mentality while standing on child's positions. Xiao Qian ,a unique and outstanding lyric writer , turned out many works. No matter the description of man and scenery or the narration all start with the feeling of one of the characters, the pouring of emotion can be easily sensed and makes one feel dim and special, what's more, his fiction is filled with poetic charm and gives readers an aesthetic enjoyment.Another thing worth our attention is : although Xiao is in favor of Poetic Fiction theory, the artistic conception created in their works are quite different. Stylistically, theworks of the former, leave the readers an impression of freshman and purity , while as the latter's works strike the readers by its secrecy, abstractness in addition to a strong modern trend. This may result from the impact of the western poetmization theory which causes some variations. The acceptation of Fiction Poetmization as well as its variations reveal socially and culturally the embarrassment and pursuit of modern Chinese intellectuals. We can feel their faith in national culture, the pain caused by the conflict of Oriental and Occidental culture , and besides, the hardness of modern cultural self-consciousness. We can also feel the writer's, individual pursuit and open-mind ness, which help to create an extraordinary charm in his works.His Valley of Dream is the life song of the vagrants. In this only long novel, the writer ,narrator and characters form such a relationship: writer is both the narrator and character, therefore it is developed in first person with a bitter love tragedy of the young writer's personal experience. In the narrator's large amount of monologue, exists what "the relation between agreement and disagreement ,affirmation and addition , and questions and answers. In this novel, his pursuit of poetic beauty , in comparison with short stories , is original and skillful. The existence of "dialogue nature "shows his unique narrative style, and in addition, the language genre of lightness, elegance and dimness.