| We should say that Hong Ying and her works are a phenomenon that make people feel confused in the Chinese circles. She has quite a lot influences overseas, such as in Europe, America , England , Australia and the region of Taiwan. On the contrary, in Mainland of China very few critics focus on her writings and give the right position to her. In fact, she still insists in using Chinese composing abroad for many years and pays continuous attention to the footsteps of Chinese literary circles. If we take a wide view of her works, it is not difficult to find out some art characteristics of the vanguard novel. She shows a new-type writer's spirit of questioning and attitude of vanguard, and fulfilled the turn from the vanguard novel to the profession novel step by step, and heading for the maturity from artistic skill, technique, language to art style.Hong Ying's novels have an original conception, exquisite layout, various style, and full of the characteristics of vanguard novel, in which, she persists on a kind of continuous explore and quest to the world, to the life and to the human nature. If you were in her world, you could sense a feeling of in a maze, where is around a mysterious, nervous, and changeable atmosphere. She proceeds a method of developing plots with declassify, and meanwhile togetherimg with the reading of mind, and make her works filled with fascination and artistic charm. It is a new phenomenon that literature began to become attached to philosophy for the formulation and development of modernistic literature in both Chinese and western literature since the 20th century, and followed the more and more consciousness of questioning when writers faced their lives and the society. We can see in the course of modern and contemporary Chinese Literature that more and more pursuance of consciousness taking personal life and spiritual course as orbit appears in works since literature on searching origin. It is because of the recovery of individual character consciousness in literature and the introduction of the modernistic factor. We ought to confirm that this kind of pursuance consciousness originated from literature of scar and literature of retrospection earlier whose essence is the memory about life and introspection of the thought, whose eyes pay close attention to society and reality but seldom search in metaphysical meaning. Hong Ying's works, however, have basically contained the two kinds of factors above: pay close attention to life and society in remembering and seek self ceaselessly in this attention----the fan of life's origin and the home of man's spirit, in which a kind of strong pursuance of consciousness is displayed.Tracing back to the life origin, could be a "knot"of the Hong Ying's life process. We could see clearly the exploring track of both the riddle of her lot and the riddle of the life in part of her works, which is also the main line that gives depth to her novels.From the 5.4 enlightening literature to the30's liberalism literature, and from the public of The Talk in Yan'an Forum on Art and Literature till 80's return to literature essence, the Chinese literature experienced the stages of crests and troughs. Except for the nation's fate at a critical moment, whether literature should undertake a certain political duty and history mission or not, generations of writers consider it as a debating and questioning issue. Hong Ying, who is a writer of having individual personality and strong spiritual pursuits , never escaped from her own duty in this heated dispute. She always expresses a strong consciousness of the weight disasters, a concern for the human destiny, and an examination and judgement for some social irregularities. In the course of examination and judgement, she completed her moral pursuit and re-construction.In Hong Ying's novels, Emotional pursuit is a very important way of attaining spiritual goals, which includes two aspects primarily: one is the pursuit for maternal love; the other is the pursuit for sexual love. These two kinds... |
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