Zhang Xin Novel Creation

This paper analyzes the characteristics of Zhangxin's citied novel from the connotation, the regional culture, the creative attitude and topics as well as aesthetic style. It provides the new method of thinking for the development of the citied novel.First, the combination of the reality of city life with the female expresses widespread harassment that exists in commercial economy ages. Zhangxin's work expresses the puzzlement that material desire affected the city females, creates many female characters that never drift with the tide, describes the hardships and exhaustion in career and their sorrow and loss in love and reveals the inner feeling of these women who live in the business competition. It faces the key problem of the modern people. Her characters share the common puzzlement and sorrow. Her works received the praise not only from the educated readers but from the ordinary readers.Second, pragmatist, openness, compatibility, and the creativity of the south region culture greatly affected Zhangxin's novels in the connotation, the characters and the artistic style, making its work present secularism, popularization. The vivid and blatant modern citied sight with the new women and the cultural spirit and artistic expression overflows the air of southern cities and penetrates the state of mind of modern citied people. The simplified aesthetic style can meet different readers at all levels. Her characters are elegant but not tacky; the plot is twisted but not hard to understand; the language is refined but not profound. She created many readable stories and conveyed her serious reflection on the society.Third, since mid-1990s, Zhangxin had written a series of novels at the basis of news events at present. She looked deeper into the social life and her works were more profound. The change of the characters proved again her persistence in probing into human nature.Her several novels are open to discussion. First, her creation is apt to film product. The dramatization, action and romanticiztion make the stories more and more fake. The fictional marks are very clear and the artistic taste is lavatorial. And to some extent they have lost the dependence in respect to texts and aesthetics. Later transition in her novel is in her writing themes. The sense of being flexible, elegant as well as being...