On Bian Zhilin Novels And Fiction Translation

For a long time, Bian Zhilin is well-known for his artistic achievements of poetryand translation. However, his exploration and efforts on novel writing also lastedmore than a decade time. As early as1929, Bian Zhilin wrote his first novel "TheNight Is Deep", and the trip to Yan’an in1938marked Bian Zhilin’s novel creationroad officially set sail, between1938and1949, he created four "wartime" seriesstory, also wrote more than a seventy-word full-length masterpiece.His earlier novel "The Night Is Deep", whether in subject content or artistic skillswith Lu Xuns novel "tomorrow" had similarities, but this time Bian Zhilin was moreimmersed in a "sad" perceptual narrative, compared with Lu Xuns novel "Tomorrow"less of depth and heavy."The Night Is Deep" paid more attention to the psychologicalawareness building, showed ordinary people in the "multilevel sadness" by polybasicpsychological changes of the hero, and the mental representation of the hierarchieswas rich, heralded Bian Zhilin’s "modernity" of novel creation. His four "wartime"series of novels with contemporary mainstream fiction of the Anti-Japanese Warwere different. The individual fate of the war was the protagonist in Bian Zhilin’snarrative, the personality of the subject was still in the era of the "collective" call.Theauthor did not give the war intuitive evaluation and description, but through thediscoveries of the most simple human nature in details, contrasted the cruel natureof war. His great novel "Mountains And Rivers" was time-consuming and exertive, inthis "masterpiece" Bian Zhilin placed some kind of ambitious thought. The novel notonly reflected the writer’s sensitivity for "the world’s ways and the hearts ofhumanity" in environment of the war, but also embodied his "coordination" and"progress" experiment in text narrative, by elaborate layout of form andtranscendental density of thought; the images and cognitive significance ofintellectuals in the war had also been further enriched and enhanced.Bian Zhilins novel writing and fiction translation were inseparable. Long beforehe threw himself into the novel creation, by translating a large number of westernnovels Bian Zhilin came into contact with some advanced novel theory, thus he had developed the research of novel writing. The Spanish writer Azorin and French writerGide deeply affected his early novels and later works. Early novel "The Night Is Deep",not only with the same Azorin’s works concerned countries and worried aboutthe people, also was the same kind of poetic flavour, quiet and flow. Gidesinfluence on the Bian Zhilin epitomized in the novel creation of "Mountains AndRivers", an objective scientific spirit of the novel represented different intellectualsfor the thinking of times and the participation in reality, Gides concept of spiralprogress not only affected the content and structure of the novel, also pushed thework’s whole fate.Besides, Bian Zhilins novels had absorbed some of the "modernity"from his translation of western modernist fiction masterpiece. The writer paidattention to the individual inner consciousness and elaborated strategy in form,these were the echo to the west "modernism" novels. More it was worth noting thatthe poet Bian Zhilin stop writing poetry in the1940s turned to the novel experiment,the deep reason behind this move was based on the understanding of the stylisticessence about the modern novel, poetry could not meet the authors creation desire,and only "the modern fiction" could express the authors conscience of the era.