A Thesis On Li Cunbao's Prose Creation

Li Cunbao's creation shifted from military fiction to prose in the middle of 1990s. At that time, even though he is well known as a novelist and reportage writer, the prose,"The Tiger Catcher","The Death of a Whale","A Leftover Dream of the Big River", and"A Poetic Masterpiece Flies Away", raise him to the peak of literature creation. This phenomenon causes us to rethink of Li's success factors. Firstly, the historical cultural context of 1990s brings creation opportunities to Li's prose. His creative desire, to a certain extent, was provoked by the open cultural atmosphere, the return of Li's awareness of creation, the emergence of the"prose bloom"and"culture bloom", as well as the expansion of materialistic pursuit and destruction of the ethical culture caused by marketization, commercialization, and competition. Secondly, Li's ideology is based on the traditional ethics of Qilu Culture and the"Charity Idea"of Confucianism. Hence, facing a terrible world, Li unconsciously inspects the world with his innate values and ideology. Thirdly, as an ex-serviceman, Li has a holy sense of mission to write for morality and conscience. While the unconstrainedness, righteous and broad-mindedness of military life indwells Li's creation. Under the affection of historic background, spiritual pioneer and self consciousness, Li's prose creation displays a colorful literary world.In this literary world,"A Leftover Dream of the Big River","A Poetic Masterpiece Flies Away", and"The Oriental God"express the root-exploration and keeping watch on the traditional culture. The writer frostily criticizes the distortion, disintegration even subversion of the traditional culture. With his tragic theme and feelings, he oppugns people's material desires and calls on the reconstruction of traditional culture. In"An Ancient Locust Tree","A Tale of the Robbers of Yimeng District", and"The National Insect", the writer recurs the historic order, historic picture an historic scenes, now that shuttling between past and present makes it easy to explore the good and the evil. When human's spiritual world is greatly shocked by the material world, mortality is, to a certain extent, facing great pressure as well as challenge. Environmental theme appears in"The Death of a Whale","Discovering the Spring in Huoshan Mountain","The Last Valley of Wild Elephants", and"The Jacobinia Carnea on the Pure Land". These works tend to reflect the conflict between human beings and the world, which is a deviation from traditional thought of"unity of heaven and human beings."At the same time, these proses explore human's desire of living ideally and call on the consciousness of ecological greenness.Li Cunbao has a wide artistic horizon. Combining the traditional and the new creation ideas in his prose creation, he manages to integrate tradition with new trend. Moreover, his variety of themes, inter-style writing approach, profound language and"grand-prose"style deepen and enrich his prose creation. Hence in"The Death of a Whale","An Ancient Locust Tree","A Poetic Masterpiece Flies Away","A Tale of the Robbers of Yimeng District","The National Insect","The Oriental God","The Jacobinia Carnea on the Pure Land", and"The Never-Wither-Away Poppy Flower", pluralism of the theme, combination of the form of novel, poetry and prose, defamiliarized language effect and style of tremendous vigor construct unique taste and charm of Li's prose. Nevertheless, although there are flaws in Li's prose, it is wildly believed that as a successful writer, Li is able to challenge and surpass himself on his way to the peak of the literary creation and present more wonderful works to the readers.