Adjustment And Predicament Of Shen Congwen's Later New Literature Creation (1949-1963)

Shen Congwen's life was divided into two parts.The first part was recognized as a writer,and the latter part was known as an expert on the history of material culture.After 1949,Shen Congwen had worked in the history museum,but he was fond of literary career most in that time,just as the saying goes,� He stands on one's side apparently but actually on another �.He actively participated in the intellectual's ideological transformation,felt the changes of the country on specific practices,and let the new era and new people replace the things as his familiar personnel.He questioned the adjustment of his literary concept when he had completed some literature works.After a dialogue with himself,he firmly established himself as an independent writer and retained his creative spirit of individuality.He found his own value in the contemporary society.Based on the interpretation and analysis of Shen Congwen's new literature creation which time was after 1949,this article explores the adjustments,dilemmas that he faces and the turn that he choose.The specific process is as follows:The first chapter comprehensively and systematically combs the innovative literary creation of Shen Congwen after 1949.It includes two levels of fiction and prose,of which the novel includes the actual entry into writing,basically completed work in practice and creative plans staying in the data collection or conception stage;prose is divided into time,content and creative purpose.The initial stage(1950s and 1960s)is based on the theme of celebrating the new era,including the public level and the " potential writing " level.Most of these works are worthless and boring,full of stimulating high-level political discourse.The second stage(1980s)is written with the theme of remembering nostalgia.The work is more sincere and smooth which compared with the first stage.The second chapter mainly discusses Shen Congwen's active adjustment of new literary creation concepts in order to integrate the time.Firstly,the desire for writing-recovery was expressed in Politics Everywhere.When he participated in the Land Reformation,he had a strong sense of identity with the new era,new society and newpeople,he began to write a novel,keeping abreast of the times in character selection and theme performance.With the implementation of the Double Hundred Policy,as a former literary giant,Shen Congwen has once drawn Literay and Art Administration's attention,and the invitation of literary working have continued.However,at that time,publicly published prose is mostly a work of singing the new era.The prose is heavily modeled at this stage,he often contrasts the new society and the old one with strongly political consciousness,in order to set the new society off great and beauty.The third chapter mainly discusses Shen Congwen's persistent literary insistence behind the progressive adjustment.He creates a new farmer who has the ownership of himself in the modern era in An Old Comrade,but in the end,it turned to the issue of intellectual reform.The Middle Team dispelled the grand theme of Land Reformation in daily life,the typical images such as landowners and farmers are both hidden in the background,his novel is far from the requirements of establishing typical creative at the same time.The Landowner Song Renrui and His Son placed the landlord directly in the background of the entire feudal society,so the landlord had both status of exploiter and exploitee.Thus,the dual opposition model of " landlord-people " was deconstruction and the class struggle was diluted.He used many years to conceive 100,000 words of materials for creating The Biography of Zhang Dinghe,and he just did not know how to write because of the conflict between his personal literary concept and the mainstream values of the time.He ended up with three sections of test writing in a hurry.Who came? is a special literary impulse,when he returned to Beijing to continue the compilation of clothing history,this novel was never mentioned.The fourth chapter mainly discusses Shen Congwen's new literary creation still faces an irreconcilable dilemma after several adjustments and efforts,that is,the conflict between the individual's insistence on literary " ingenuity " and the writing of the formula of the time.He decided to devote the creative power of life to another work when he finished The Abstract Lyricism.After that time,Shen Congwen does no longer obsess with the creation of new literary forms,he began to write old-style poetry,and turned his infinite creativity into the study of material cultural history,in order to achieve the innernourishment of his own life.It also opens up the country for the young generation and dedicates it to life.The overall quality of Shen Congwen's later new literature creation is average,and it is difficult to match the previous works in terms of language,structure and philosophical quality.Although Shen Congwen's turn has a reason for the system of the times,it cannot be completely blamed.His turn was a natural choice after failure to adapt,and was the result of individual subjective initiative.