Calvino's Novel Art And Its Impact On China

Italian novelist Calvino, is well acknowledged as one of the most influential novelists in the contemporary world. Devoted all his life into exploring in novel creating, he features his works in diversity. Employing knowledge and amusement, which overthrow traditional concept, he develops novel into an opening text for readers to freely participate in. Meantime, "crystal structure" pattern and "time zero" theory are constantly performed by him to exhibit limitless possibility of novel creating. Different from contemporary writers, he maintains tremendous belief in literary, which finds expression in his novel creating as well as aesthetic thoughts. Taken as "author of the authors", Calvino is increasingly attracting interest and attention in the field of critics.Close relationship could be found between his lifetime creating as well as his aesthetic thoughts and his growing experiences. Particular background gives him opportunity to embrace the nature. Besides, he benefits a lot from folktales and myths, which thus enlightens his 30-year creation of novels. Proficient both in arts and science, this creative writer manages to switch abstract concept and natural science into novel emotions with human interpretation, which paints his literary works a scientific color. 15-year sojourn in Paris promotes his maturity in creating style, encourages his particular novel aesthetic style, and establishes his status of "postmodernist Master".Calvino reaches his literary achievements both in practice and theory. The latter is fully explained in the book in which the five key words: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity are interpreted from new perspective. Due to his unique artistic feature, ceaselessly groping spirit and full consciousness in creating, he stands out in the fields of novelists.Optimistic and decisive attitude towards literary guide Calvino to hunt for ways of literature, thus presenting a broad possibility for novel development in the long term. His influences on China's contemporary novel creating, in theory or in...