Attempt For Return: The Effort Of Self-exploration In Canxue's Short Novels

Canxue is some more a controversial writer in China's literary scene. Many of her novels have been translated into various languages to introduce overseas and obtain a certain response. Compares to the praise of critics overseas, domestic critic is mixed. However, many critics still recognized the uniqueness of her novels; some people also gave a high evaluation. Predecessors tried to use a variety of theoretical approaches to make her novels possible explained, and have achieved certain results. Canxue's short novels have a certain representation of her creations, and to sort out the internal logic clues in it is a good way to grasp her creation ideal.In order to study Canxue's short novels, this paper based on previous studies, trying to grasp and explain the theme of self-exploration in her novels. Canxue's short novels contain her own rich ideology, throughout a strong sense of self-review and the spirit of self-exploration. This article has been combing the evolution of the self spirit. Through the analysis of self-exploration in Canxue's short novels, we can see the devotion to the ideals and self-break in her years of creation. And we can also see how she made Chinese and Western cultures together to create such a unique novel. This has a certain value on the overall study of Canxue's short story and research in the field of her creative ideas and so on.Over the years Canxue has always insisted on her own creation ideal, that is the spirit of self-exploration. Under the guidance of this spirit, she does a series of efforts on self-exploration in her short novels. This process reflects in the novels is a process to solve fans continuously. The heroine is always surrounded by puzzle. He needs to continue to solve puzzle through the process and break through obstacles, so that he could finally get the true face of himself. Props for dream, self-splitting and the existence of puzzle provide both subjective and objective conditions for self-exploration. At the same time, Canxue makes a combination of children's curiosity and the rational of adults, and create an external environment in which reality and fantasy were intertwined. Under such conditions, the self-establishment experiences a process from unity to split-up, and to re-unification.Over the years Canxue makes the effort of self-exploration, searching for the true self, but it does not mean that there is no change in her creation; she also adjusts the pace of her own. It's not easy to trace the process, sentiments of others to some extent become barriers during the process of self-exploration. This has resulted in two obstacles from both the spiritual world and the secular world. On one hand, are the communication barriers with the split body in the spiritual world; on the other hand are the emotional disputes in the secular society. The manifestation of the conflict is with the family and the people around them, such as interpersonal conflict. Face such obstacles. Canxue gradually shows a strong resistance and adaptability, trying to find the balance for survival in the secular world. This is the of her creation ideal. This adjustment does not insist on a no-breakthrough road but showed a greater strength to the strength of using the recoil of barriers to go further.She freely across the Eastern and Western cultures achieves self-exploration. The self-establishment is a process which contains self-division and self-adjustment. At the same time the two sides integrate in the spirit of self-exploration. Canxue takes the initiative to accept Western ideas, she is a full optimist. She weakens the negative and tragedy sense in the modern Western thought and, while at the same time strengthens the positive sense. Her novels have a strong sense of self-reflection, but also are lack of social criticism. On the other hand, we can obviously feel a stubborn spirit in Canxue's short novels, the struggle with the secular is more strongly, which is very similar to Luxun. However, compares to the insight to penetrate of the secular that Luxun has, she stays in the efforts which the pursuit of self-passion.Although Canxue's short novels show a clue which the self-exploration flows, that is the main self from unity to deviation, and gain strength through an internal struggle. The characters also struggle with the secular and make adjustments, and have a desire to combine as a whole once again. But the result of the establishment of the main self is not very clear. Canxue's short novels have both the advantages of Chinese and Western cultures, and I believe through constant adjustment her creation in the future could be better.