On Su Tong

As the significant representative of van'story,Su Tong contributed to the forming of modern Chinese literature as a destoryer and a constractor as well.His works,along with the works of Yu-hua's and Ge-fei's,pulled down the historical and geand narritive which is based on ideological collective practice,thus mack the pluralistic culture and individualism the trend of literary creation. Therefore the research to Su Tong is realistic,it's not merely aimed at Su Tong himself.But a summary and review to a wider literary era.As a writer van rises abruption in late 1980s',Su Tong has covered a long way in writing.In his tens of years writing,he has issued more than 3,000,000 words,thus formed the story world of himself.This world embodied the diachronic character of his novel. The probe to Su Tong's themes of writing is obviously helpful to our understanding and trends of modern Chinese social thoughts,hense the study to themes constitutes the second dimension of this thesis.Actually,as to Su Tong,the probe and development to the story is plain or shallow,and the individualized aesthetic style based on language,syle,etc is his ultimate mission on the pursue of art.Above-mentioned three researsh planes constitute essentially.First,the way that Su Tong writes the story.The creative work course of Su Tong during the 20 years' can he devided into 3 phases.1)Procific stage which makes a name for him (1985-1988).2) Summit stage together with texts.( 1989-199l).3)Declining stage(1991-now).The creative work course of Su Tong presents essentially a parabolic shape operation locus.The placid and endless pattern comes followed with the upsurge stage.This is a description of the artistic energy of writer and a pattraiture of the current Chinese concrete circumstance of the van's literature.Van of course is a relative idea.Yet afterward the proper harvest of van stage is repalced by the indifference,the van's literature turns into a kind of impetuosity.Afterwards one endless in conceivable stage comes into being. Second.The theme of Su Tong's story.The foundamental theme of Su Tong's story can be put into 4 philosophy categoried.Existence theme. Theme of humanity vice.History examining theme.The theme of essence flleeing from home.They percolate each other,butbasically speaking each theme does not wholly everstep the norm of humanity.Though this angle,the core of the novel is humanity and humanism. Wheraes other themes are extensions or reexpounding from this one. Third,the persuit of aesthetics.The aesthetic features of Su Tong's story can be grouged into 3 fundamental respects.First the art of middle short story.Su Tong has a good reputation of the art middle story and reach a completely new altitude.His main accomplishment in middle short story lies in tow spaces:one is recounting finely and the other is the ability to organize the structure of the story perfectly. Second the utclization of multi-artistic elements.Su Tong is adept in utilizing the artistic measures such as imagery,metaphor,irong and so on,and formed unigue artistic style of his own.He is one of the masters on novel writing. Third the sentimental aesthetic style.Su Tong's such style firstly originated in humanity,geography,scenery,climate in south of the Changjiang River,where overflowed with freedom,sentimentalism;the second factor is the memory of the auther and his physical and mental sufferins in his childhood ;the last one is the great influnce from Chinese classical literature.The sentimental aesthetics is unique,influnce many later writers.