The Study Of Chi Zijian’s Novels

In1980s Chi Zijian enter the literarary world. So far it has already been thirty years.Her early works are famous for lyric style. With her efforts, her works have been greatlyimproved both in depth and width and are popular with more readers and make her winmany awards from both home and abroad. At the same time, the critics studies on herworks are more and more. The paper starts form the theme, narrative strategy and aestheticfeatures in order to do whole study on Chi Zijian’s novels.Chi Zijian’s novels have two themes. The first theme is think of own hometown andfeel great sorrow at the nature. The second theme is care for the human nature and life. Thefirst chapter analyzes the first theme from two points that they are love to own hometownand sadness to the nature. This paper analyzes the second theme from three points that theyare the interpretation of the essence of human nature, the attention of the existence and thebeyond consciousness of the death.Chi Zijian has her own narrative strategy. The second chapter discuss the narrativestrategy of her novels from two points that one is the change of perspective andarrangement of time and space and the other is poetic description and language rhetoric.Her novels’ perspective contains omniscient perspective and limited perspective.Sometimes in order to meet the needs of the plot structure, theme and artistic effect, herparts of the novels use the multiple narrative perspective. The language is for its themeservice. In order to reveal the theme, she uses some language rhetoric that is the classicallanguage charm, everyday narration language, clever use of color words and the structurefunction of long and short sentences.Chi Zijian’s novels give us a kind of aesthetic feeling. The third chapter discuss theaesthetic characteristics of her novels from three aspects that they are romantic color,colorful image world and the original ecological aesthetic conception. They make herworks have aesthetic value and let readers get aesthetic enjoyment.In a word, in the contemporary literary world Chi Zijian and her works are special.Her spiritual pursuit is love and beauty, so she holds up the banner of truth, virtue an dbeauty and has great sympathy for the unfortunate in the novels. Her gentle writing criticize the discordant social reality and yearn for the good life.