On Art Features Of Xiao Hong's Novels

Succeeding Bing Xing and Ding Ling, Xiao Hong was another outstanding woman writer of modern times. The publish of her gaining celebrity work- ((Birth and Death Fair)} in Dec 1935 brought a blast of fresh air, and was highly spoken of by Lu Xun. During her nine-year career of literature creation, she achieved magnificently and left the world works of one million words in such a short period. Her creation involves various styles, including novel, prose, poem, play, letter and so on. Of them, considering their literature achievements, her novel is above all, taking up two-thirds of all her creation, which reveals her talents and art features free from chained modes, and all these that represent her general features and styles are indispensable in the research of Xiao Hong. Her novels feature the peculiar fascination and have stood the "long-night" racket, so they are very popular with readers and have aroused attention once more in the research field to it. As a result, they start fitful "Xiao Hong craze" with the public keeping their eyes on earnestly. Xiao Hong's novels were greatly influenced and restrained by the time, personality, her own experiences and other factors, so they are deeply marked with the time and contributed much to the mature and development of Chinese modern novels. Her novels, as a whole body of independent and abundant art, constitute the mental world full of art fascination and thought of nationality from the four sides: the theme of changing the soul of nationality, peculiar narration mode, styles of expressing emotion sorrowfully and newly bright art language.