Creeping Over The Ground

A large number of novels written by Wang Anyi give us the strong historical sense of on-the-spot and vicissitudes of life .This is not the general reflection made by eternal time in a writer's artistic world, but the historical existence form existing in Wang Anyi's mind, and her special experience about history and methods in dealing with history.Wang Anyi's history view is routine one and it is the retort to narration of History. She built a closing historical time and space, and completed the aesthetic expression of special historical view imperceptibly while narrated the routine life also because of her superb narrational technique. This embody deeply her praise for the independent and persevering spirit of citizen and her tragic experience to simple life and decline to urban historical spirit. At the same time, routine history made a decision to ungovernmental history in its basic value and field. The history created by small potato in the daily life is exactly a kind of history that silent but true.The formation of Wang Anyi's historical view is the latent expression of the popular and secular and even commercial social realistic conditions which existed in writer's heart. The New Historicism give up "History" but do favor of "history", push "Historical truth " aside but pay attention to "Historical comprehension", put emphasize on "Historicity of texts" and "Textuality of history", its affirmation to the method of re-explaining history provides Wang Anyi's historical narration with the logical starting point and the enlightenment of thinking, especially, Hayden White's state of "history is a kind of literary imaginary hermeneutic" is really the proper evaluation to Wang Anyi's novel. The gender-bender is also an important reason, a female writer often obtains her writing resources from the special living space among women, even when...