Recall The Past During Transtion

Sha Ting is one of the most characteristic authors in the modern literature. He often describes county people in the northwest towns of Sichuan by realism, and forms the special style of satiric, gloomy, and deep. The satirizing technical, the realistic description and the portrayal of the county people accomplish Shading novels' high level. After 1949, as a literature officer, Sha Ting in the face of new literature creation rules and writing form, he began his transition of subject, selecting material, modified creating technical and style. After the transition, the used familiar satirizing technical could not be found, and the town was gone. However, the desire for literature can only seek from detail description and use details to save art.The preface takes up Sha Ting's statue and his contributions to modern literature from novel and novel theories by straightening out literature commentaries and related works on the signification of Shading's literature history during the past few decades.The first chapter researches the conditions of satirizing technical of Shading's novel. Satirizing reveals thoroughly understanding of life. Shading's satirizing technical and the northwest town are actually the same. The town is an experiment yard, in which Shading use live, death, money and ascendancy to test the flexibility of good and evil in human nature. During the 17 years of composition, the satirizing technical is not suitable when the subject and character are changing. Thus, satire gradually weakens and disappears. Left satire and old northwest town behind, Sha...