On Tengxiao Lan 's Novel Creation

Teng Xiaolan is one of the representative writers of Shanghai school literature in the new century.She creats a lot of unique and rich content in the novels with Shanghai as the background.Teng’s novels are full of local Shanghai elements and feelings,close to the city common people life,describing their joys and sorrows, daily hassles and struggling to survive.Teng Xiaolan inherits and developes the Shanghai school literature from the 30’s of the last century.Teng’s unique novel creation points out the urban literature a new direction in the 21 th century,with Shanghai as the starting point.This paper has three parts,making Teng Xiaolan’s Shanghai novels as the research focus,including the fromaesthetic,the narrative content and the art skill.The first part makes exploration of Teng Xiaolan’s works,the creation clues and the overall background,so as to capture the writer’s unique literary world view.The second part deals with the stories in Teng’s novels.There are three protagonists often appear in Teng’s novels:the urban men and women who are falling in love,the nobodies who are struggling in life and the migrant workers who want to make a living in Shanghai.The third part summarizes the narrative features of Teng Xiaolan’s novels and the artistic value, discussing the narrative logic of his worksin multi angle confrontation,the focus on details and dialogs and the view of the feminine angle.Finally,the paper makes an overview of the Shanghai literature.It analyses the different Shanghai pictures created by the different writers,so that the advantages and disadvantages of Teng’s novels could be figured out.