Wang Zengqi’s Early Novel Theory

In recent years,the collection of Wang Zengqi’s anecdotes from the 1940 s has become more and more complete,and the discussion of Wang Zengqi’s novels has gradually turned to his early works.Most of these works are his classroom work as a young student,so there are immature parts in the novel.But just because of his identity as a young student and author,he has more courage to try the possibility of novel narration.Wang Zengqi has a very strong Chinese traditional literature background.Before entering The National South West Associated University,he received the traditional Chinese literature education,and he naturally followed the traditional Chinese literati ethos.This feeling of his projected on the novel,the novel with a strong Chinese flavor.After entering The National South West Associated University,Wang Zengqi came into contact with the literature of western modernism.Such a novel way of literary writing opened the door of Wang Zengqi’s creation,he absorbed existentialism,stream of consciousness,symbolism and other techniques,and integrated them into it.So you can see a mixture of east and west in his early novels.The characters,themes and language organization of the novel all tend to be traditional,while western modernism is woven into the text as a writing technique.As a young student,Wang Zengqi could not do without the teacher’s guidance except to read and study independently and try to write.Some of Wang Zengqi’s early novels were completed in Shen Congwen’s "writing in various styles" course at The National South West Associated University.Under the influence of Shen Congwen,Wang Zengqi’s early novels must have imitations of Shen Congwen’s novels,and even some imitations of Shen Congwen’s novels.Of course,Wang Zengqi’s early imitation of Shen Congwen is of great significance.But we should also see the differences between Wang Zengqi and Shen Congwen.In particular,Shen Congwen’s attention to the history of The Times and his reflection on the maturity of human beings are not touched by Wang Zengqi’s early novels.The innovation of Wang Zengqi’s early novels is his long technique of integrating the stream of consciousness,which breaks the narrative mode of traditional novels.In his early stream-of-consciousness novels,there is no normal logical order for the narrative,the jump of time and space is great,and the subjective and objective reality changes at any time.And that’s why his kind of novels are kind of obscure.There are innovations,and there are also inherits.In his early period,there was another kind of novels that were heavily influenced by the Beijing school.Narrated from the outside by the omniscient author,the novel is mostly set in the author’s hometown of Gaoyou or his second hometown of Kunming.At the same time,the analysis of Wang Zengqi’s early novels can be used as a bridge between his early and late works.Over time and personal experience,what remains of his early creative explorations?...