Loneliness And Persistent Pursuit

Xiao Hong, is praised as the goddess of literature in the 1930's. She regards writing as her life and religion. So she refused the invitation of teaching in the university after she became famous. She thinks that the creation of literature can't be expounded by any theory, but is a holy career of developing characteristics. Moreover, her inspiration and personality of creating will be eroded and besieged by many fixed theories after long years' teaching. And when she began her writing on her twenties, no matter how the life is changing, no matter how lonely and miserable she is, she never gave up her writing. So this young female writer who died on her thirties, shows us her special glamour by her pursuing for dreams, rough life and personality. She lived beautifully and colorfully although dies when she's young, just like the meteor. A good case in point is her works are very popular in Taiwan and mainland in the 21st century.Her works have different and disharmonious factors during the 1930's, when the national conflicts are extremely inspiriting and the prosperous "Anti-Japan" literature became essential trend. She described awaken and self-help people in the Anti-Japan War, and she's famous for her Anti-Japan novel - "the Battlefield of Life and Death"; also many plots appear in her proses, but what she thought was deeper and wider than "Save the nation from extinction". So the people at that time and nowadays will find that they can't ignore Xiao Hong, and it's troublesome and awkward to define her position in the literature field when they talk about this period. Because it's really difficult to include and classify her works into some kind of group or style. And it's her glamour and difference on her creation that show us. This article is to widely analyze " the concerning on living" - it's one of her special creative direction. It tries to find a point that can see Xiao Hong and her works through more objectively and to discuss what she gave us by her pursuing for life and literature creation, by compared and analyzed the various persons and their attitudes; the exposure on the underdeveloped factors of traditional culture and the shortage of "Nationality"; the revelation on the women's state of living and the exploration on the women's future; the comprehension on the life's tragic meaning and the sad, bleak style.Time brings great changes to the world, and everything is changing. When we read her works, what we can console her is; our nation has revived after many miserable years. Xiao Hong ever looked and thought her unfortunate life by her tears and blood, but most of them have gone. However, our generation have learned to look back our past and look forward our future in more tolerant viewpoint and attitude from former experiences and lessons; to object and appraise the phenomenon and history of literature from a visual angle nearer to literature. Under such circumstances, we finally understand Xiao Hong gradually, touch her solitary soul and listen to her music composed by her life, tears, blood and joy.