The Awakening And Deepening Of Realism

Zhangtianyi and his works are always being the researching keystone in the circle of Chinese modern literature. But the researching view of previous studies has sometimes rested on the scope of Chinese modern literature, without going deep into the lay on which the native culture and the world culture communicates and devoid of the insight of intercultural surveying.Zhangtianyi rounded into the connecting point of the three kinds of spiritual headstreams : traditional literature? western literature and "May 4th literature". He assimilated nutriment from these resources. Among the foreign writers , Dickens exercised the most important influence on Zhangtianyi,but the persons he admired most were the Gogol and Chekhov. Dickens' novel established the keynote for Zhangtianyi to accept the foreign literatures and affected potentially his writing of realism. The influences from Gogol and Chekhov emancipated Zhangtianyi's potentiality of creation and deepened his inditement of realism.The choices made by Zhangtianyi in the process of accepting the foreign influence, in fact, were cultural filtrations based on the cultural tradition and social reality .The study of Zhangtianyi and his relations with foreign literatures is a cut-in point of studying Chinese modern literature under the background of cultural conflict between the Chinese culture and the western culture. From this point, we could not only find the cultural reason for the welcome and refusal to literature influence and literature acceptance, understand the cultural consciousness and spirit accumulated in the mind of modern writers, but also provide a much more veracious and thorough understanding about their works in a new historical and literature dimension.