The Mysterious Narrative Of Chen Yingsong’s Novel

Blending realistic and mysterious, Chen Yingsong built up his own art world. Hisworks, most of which mystical and enigmatic, greatly influenced by the contemporaryliterary trend and regional culture besides his own aesthetic taste, when we tried totrace the source of its narrating mystery.Artistic conception, construction of dreams and hallucination, wizard figures,images making, descriptions of belief in supernatural beings, and narrations of oddevents, featured Chen’s novels. Chen built his own literary kingdom with his realisticand, at the same time, no lack of romantic writing style.Viewed from the spirit pursuing, Chen called for divinity, fantasying humanbeing’s poetic survival. Particularly featured in inspiring artistic effect, his novels,cold and circuitous, aroused others to think about some serious philosophy issues,such as humanity, life, dignity and so on.While viewed from the facts reflecting, Chen tried to reveal the indifferent realityin a magnificent and gorgeous way, thus an un-secular space was set up by themysterious narrations. These mysterious works, expressing the author’s understandingand imagination of the folk countryside world, are queries and critiques to the moderncivilization.