The Concise Style Of Li Juan’s Prose

Li Juan,who won the 7th Lu xun Literature Prize for prose and essay in 2018,has been recognized by the critics with her uniquely fresh and pure writing styles.Her works are also worshiped by numerous scholars,and the following“heat of Li Juan”further shows readers’love of Li Juan’s essays,which have a style of their own in the literary arena of the new century.Her writing style is pure and fresh,exquisite and simple.She sincerely depicts the material world and human landscape in Altay,and writes down the mountains,vegetation and folk customs around her without any exaggerated and virtual element.She describes every detail of life with the simplest and plainest language,so as to construct a simple,ordinary but sparkling world.Such narration with unique styles shows Li Juan’s own life and personality while containing her aesthetic consciousness,which happens to be the part triggering aesthetic enjoyment on the part of readers.She talks about domestic trifles as if readers could experience them personally while feeling its exotic style,which comprises the originality of Li Juan’s concise style—evoking readers’cognition of her artistic uniqueness while producing the most genuine aesthetic resonance in them.Be it the“simplicity-oriented”tradition that lasts for thousands of years in China or the“minimalism”that has been prevailing in the West since the 20^thcentury,both of them verify people’s acceptance of the simplest and plainest style and longing for original genuineness.The“conciseness”of Li Juan’s essays is neither simplifying the plot and language according to the Minimalism of the Western world in the 20^thcentury,nor the weighing of words mentioned in the“simplicity-oriented”ancient Chinese works.Her writings are“concise”for the“simplicity and plainness without polishing”derived from her nature.Just as she described herself as a“wild”writer,her articles were all created from her nature,involving the call within,tears,smiles,admiration and reminiscence without exaggeration or complication.She narrated what she saw and heard with her own language system without a tragic touch in characters or consecrating the scenery.Just because of her“wildness”in writing,she wasn’t restricted by any school.Instead,she would simply express herself,and such“conciseness”is in fact“simple but great”,containing its own rich connotation.It was her pure heart and outlook that determined the content of her essays and even ways of writing.Therefore,her writing never impresses people as clumsy fabrication.Li Juan’s essays reach the depth of readers’heart with a sincere,frank,plain and concise tone.It opens a new way and Angle for the prose writing in the new era,thus helping to build a broader literary world.