From The Objects To The Images-on Eileen Chang’s Novels During The1940s

The arts of the object and the image became diverse and full-fledged during thetime from1920s to1940s. Many novelists have their tries and styles on the choices ofthe objects and the images. These different kinds of literatures not only broadened thesources of the objects and the images of the modern Chinese literature but alsoeffectively promoted the modernization of Chinese fiction.When most of the novelists arranged the story background and created theatmosphere of the stories with describing the times environment, Eileen Chang wasdifferent from the primary tides of the realism and the modernism. With her uniqueangle and sensibility, what she cared about was the matters of little consequence.When she creating novels, she made the objects reappeared and skillfully showed therich inner world of the characters.Eileen Chang’s dual structure of the objects and the images built the drearinessstory background and atmosphere which revealed the desolate human relationship andlife feeling. This was her unique style of beauty-appreciation feature and creatingstyle. Eileen Chang was free outside the mainstream trend with her unique outlook onlife and values. But simultaneously, her novels were full of not only the struggle ofthose people who were in the stream of the revolutionary but also the wounds whichwas difficult to heal. Eileen Chang knew the essence of Chinese and foreign literature.With combining the objects and the images, she fused the objects and the mentality offigures in the novels, creating her unique novel feature which was flashy and desolate.