Tracing Back To Ariose Upgrowth Days

As an outstanding writer and theorist in Children literature writing and research in contemporary China, Wenxuan Cao is the first one to discuss the theories of upgrowth novel on the basis of youngster novel and published related works subsequently. These works attracted the attention of the literary world in their unique style. There are two characteristics in the novels of Wenxuan Cao: one is that they have obvious adult inclination in establishing and delivering the themes;The other is that they succeed to and develop the classicalism in poetry narration. Such orientation brings the advantages of Wenxuan Cao's novels such as guiding for children and enjoying in retrospect for adults,it also shows some clear limitations, such as, not so adult, not so children.Wenxuan Cao's novels, especially his river novels mainly tell the upgrowth stories of one or several youngsters,in which the dramatis personas are all minors under age. His novels represent the youngsters'seeking for self-awareness and their acknowledgement for self-identity by narrating their upgrowth experience. On the representation style of children literature, Wenxuan Cao's works focus on pursuing in spiritual home of the youngsters and reflecting on the living space of human being. The thematic characteristics orient his novels to be"growth novel", which avoids the disputation on Wenxuan Cao's works whether they are children novels or adult novels and is helpful for understanding Wenxuan Cao's novels in a largo theoretical space.As"growth novel", Wenxuan Cao's novels strive to represent the youngsters'psychological journey by selecting to narrate the key stages in their growing to adults. However, there are apparent individual characteristics in Wenxuan Cao's works which are quite different from those in the self-experience upgrowth novels. For Mr. Wenxuan Cao, his writing style derives from the creative idea of responsibilities with consciousness, under the guiding of which his novels show obvious adult inclination in thematic establishment and expression. He lays out the youngsters'psychological experience by writing their upgrowth experience in his novels. He shows the adults'eternal experiences and feelings in life such as love, tribulation, etc. He tells affecting stories one by one with poetry narration, guiding the youngsters'upgrowth in tasting the hardships. Meanwhile, his novels embodies such a writing mode as"recalling-seeking-reflecting"which is the result of the writer reflecting the growth days as an adult. His novels provide an opportunity for readers to enjoy the aftertaste of life.Secondly,Wenxuan Cao's novels offer different choices for literature appreciation in the view of children and provide a filtered living space. It is the poetical Living of children's eyes,It is the cantabile years of adult's memory.At the same time, Cao wenxuan inherited the poetic narrative pattern which began in Feiming and success in Shen Congwen and followed by Wang Zengqi .He created a sweet world with dilute narrative and poetic language in his novel,so it has a "poetic fiction" characteristic. This is external manifestation of the aesthetics pursuit of a classical Writer .Generally,Mr. Wenxuan Cao develops the upgrowth novel and widens the representation space for children literature; meanwhile, his poetry narrative style provides more space for the appreciation of children literature as well.However, his responsibilities with consciousness also bring a problem that the themes exist before writing. Therefore, the themes of his novels, such as tribulation, dignity, dream, loneliness and true feelings, are mainly the focuses of adults or directly of the writer himself. It's true that these themes really exist in one's upgrowth history, but they often make the works much more serious and lack of affinity. In addition, his novels also make a distance between them and children because of the ordinary and slowly plots and the language in adult style, there is also a distance between them and adults because of the relatively simple themes and thinking. In this case, it's not so successful in moving both children and adults. The decreases the strength of Wenxuan Cao's works as well as the freshness of literature.