Life Nirvana

Wumingshi is a peculiar writer in the Chinese literary world in the present day, his novels are very larruping, especially his ?recondite book?. This paper tries to survey the peculiar meaning and artistic features of ?recondite book? within the cultural and literary background in 1940s and 1950s, and to discover his exploration of anima essence and his desire for aniina nirvana. The paper is divided into 3 parts, i.e., biography of Wumingshi and writing background of ?recondite book? , anima theme in ?recondite book? , artistic features of ?recondite book? .The first part of the paper explores the political and cultural atmosphere in the era when Wumingshi was living and applied himself to writing, queasy era gave birth to the existence surveying novels. "At the time full of sadness, life is an adage of darkness", with his special life experience and exclusive thought, Wumingshi explored "the original and true state of life", as result, his novel ?recondite book? occupied an position in Chinese modern literary history.The second part discusses the theme of life inrecondite book . Anima, the important issue in philosophy, was the goal that Wumingshi pursued inwardly all his life, what he wrote was based on himself but surpassed himself, he reposed his cause on the heroine Betty in his novel so as to complete his imagination about anima self by making betty's life go through seven metempsychosis.The third part analyzes the artistic futures ofrecondite book , Wumingshi is a special writer, his representative work recondite book is artistically the result of self-searching and self-realization, he started the novel with the style of "combination of poem and philosophy", which possesses lyric tincture and poetic feature, and expended the representation scope of fictions. With the surging feeling, abundant vocabulary and wonderful conception, He offered us a magnificent series of novel.