The Realism Factor Of XuXu’s Novels

XuXu is famous for his works of romanticism, such as FengXiaoxiao and Gui Lian. He has been regarded by readers and researchers as a romantic writer. However, by reading a large number of his works, the author finds that XuXu also writes many realistic novels. We can even obviously find factors of realism in some of his works which has been generally classified as romantic ones. So far, for XuXu’s realism or realistic factors in his romantic works, the researchers give a casual notice but lack specific, detailed and in-depth research.Realism in XuXu’s works is different from socialist realism. He is intentionally separate from the mainstream consciousness. From the perspective of exposing and criticizing, XuXu combines social hardship with the reflection on society to start a new creation pattern which is composed of both realism and romanticism. In this paper realism will be a mirror of having an insight of XuXu so that we can rediscover his realistic creation attitude in the turning of the era as well as dig his realism spirit under the cover of Romanticism.XuXu’s realistic creation began in the 1930s and his debut Feng Xiaoxiao is a realistic novel. In the 1940s, he set his eyes on Chinese society and the suffering of Chinese people during the war. He revealed the pain and reflected rationally, creating the typical realism work called Yi Jia. His creative attitude of concerning reality, digging the suffering of bottom people continued to the period of Hong Kong. It can be said that realism goes through all the works XuXu has written. In XuXu’s works, both the creative attitude and methods show the fundamental significance of realism in his literary creation. Either the creative attitude or creative methods shows the realism in its fundamental significance of literary creation.In this paper, Xu Xu realistic writing integration in installments at the same time, break the limitations of age, social factors, the Spirit of Realism as a whole context of the study, a comprehensive review of the development and change of Xu Xu realistic creation of the era, themes and realistic creation methods combined, the system restore Xu Xu romanticism shelter under the spirit of realism. In his later creation, he examined the politics and Chinese society during the war in a perspective of critic, reflecting the behavior and fate of intellectuals in the intertexture of politics and war. He concerned about the rural and urban in the turning time. In the dynamic evolution of urbanization and secularization, he rethought the impact of the age on people, looked at the change of human nature especially love concept. While he revealed the suffering life of bottom people, he explored the loss of human nature along with the change of time. With exposing and criticizing, XuXu truly and objectively reappeared Chinese people’s bitterness and misery, reflected the change of political thought as well as the social unrest and corruption in the 1920s.There are both objective and realistic as well as historical analysis. XuXu’s works reflect the history of China from the 1930s to 1970s truly and completely and achieve the unity of subjective and objective, history and reality.Although commentators will Xu Xu Romanticism as the main object of study, but through the study of their realism and romanticism Works realism factors, we can rediscover the true face of Xu Xu realism creation of Xu Xu Re understanding and research, help revaluation Xu Xu status in literary history, but also for further research and the creation of its foundation.