Snow Novel Creative Method Study

After 20 years investigating, CanXue's novels have obtained plentiful research achievement. Commentators try to explain CanXue form various aspects and also noticed her characteristics of "Modernism" .But commentators still regard those novels roughly as the traditional creation which wrote under reason guiding and lacking of serious concern for the author's special method and conception of writing.CanXue often "let pen go ahead "when she is writing. The credendum she followed is similar to the Surrealism's "automatic writing". An author of Automatic writing needs neither design nor considering for esthetics and morality rules when he writing. All he needed is to note subconscious which rushed into her brains. On one hand, CanXue's automatic writing is related to the trend of age — western modernism's worship for anti-logos and individual spirit. On the other hand, writing in this way has accorded with the author's mode of thinking rooted in the XiangChu sorcery culture, and influenced by it, CanXue's creation presented special characteristics.Investigating CanXue's writing process, we can view a track which indicates development and transformation of Automatic writing. At first, both subconscious records and conceive designs are distinct ; Mature stage, subconscious records is the main composition and the author try to get rid of thoughts in novels; Last stage, style of works has changed with consciousness revealed evidently. Automatic writing method had as well as influenced the creation's theme strongly :" Desperation "had special expression , and the topic of "Other" had also appeared frequently because of the author's anti-logic conception.Automatic writing had the possibility to exceed human reason. As a result, CanXue's novels can present things that excluded by consciousness, then, can excavate more subjects for literature. At the meantime, her creation exhibited a novel text for Chinese contemporary literature and presented more possibility for creative composition.