Vanity Fair And The Shangri-La

Since the first novel "in search of Li Mai" Lu Min’s novel creation has been more than10years, she has many excellent works to us,at the same time she also gradually formed its own literary world.Lu Min in her novels seems deliberately to take "city" and "country" as the background of the novel creation, describes two different world. She described the city as the material expands extremely metropolis, but the country seems to have stuck in the block and slightly behind the stage. However, the bustling metropolis are but not to give the city the spirit of pleasure, they dispel emotions, indulging desires. But the villagers living in rural areas have the most beautiful and pure, They are warm to live in "Shangri-La" of rural life.The urban material greatly enriched did not rise of urban human spirit, modern civilization brings the Iniversion of material and spirit. But people don’t feel just like a fish in water in gorgeous beautiful city. They trapped drowning in love and desire, fame and fortune of large network. Lu Min is like holding a magnifying glass, examine every inch of pain urbanite, her is more critical and reveal. Lu Min let us see the real world evil, at the same time, she don’t forget to give us light guide, the beautiful yearning. She took us back to have a better goodness. Rural life is monotonous and poor, but the people in the village show us that a beautiful country just like "Shangri-La ".Lu Min wrote here with endless warmth, she told us a beautiful story slowly.Analysis of Lu Min’s novels we can found that Lu Min literary worlds and her own experiences have an important relationship. It is the inheritance and breakthrough of traditional Chinese contemporary literature. Under the influence of a number of outstanding writers. Lu Min formed her own unique literary.Lu Min’s growth experience has two parts, Her childhood live in a place called Dong tai of Jiangsu. Here are simple and straightforward, and the villagers are simple kind.Hometown impression engraved in the writer’s childhood and a soft heart. When she walked into the cities, seeing the urban scene of debauchery and hearing the city’s boring. So the writer resist city. She looked all cities with a critical eye, and write this "uncooperative" in her novels. In this way, she was more missing hometown.Lu Min’s literary world formation is inseparable from the study and inheritance of contemporary outstanding writer and form the unique style. Lu Min’s "city" theme of the novel, starting with the urban people’s emotions, They play the game of life, play with emotion. This is similar to Eileen Chang that take her urban novels in small children emotion as the breakthrough, try to write the glitz and urban metropolis impetuous of literary tradition. They overturned the traditional family ethic mode, Created artificial "dwarf" father, the distorted mother and the "victims" daughters. Another part of the novel is mainly based on the life of ordinary people, their life is trivial and boring, Lu Min again and again describe their vanity and boring. This seemed to agree with Chi Li, Fang Fang, Liu Zhenyun as the representative of the new realistic writers. Lu Min also said that because of her childhood reading experiences. Obsessed the western narrative technique. Her novels are more or less influenced by the western realism.Maybe city is " not perfect". Under Lu Min created a series of "city" theme of the novel, to create a "perfect" is our world." Shangri-La" have appeared in Shen Congwen’s "border town", Wang Zengqi’s "an Zhao Zhuang". But Lu Min’s "Dong Ba " is not on the "border town" simple transplantation, Her "native" is in background of contemporary China. Today’s local is no longer yesterday’s local. Here is a cunning, here are desires. Lu Min continued the "native" novels of Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi.Lu Min’s novels has formed her own unique literary style, she write the reality incisively, and write the ideal truly. She writes the urban novels such as surgeon general and detailed sharp, and she writes local themes warmly. Lu Min established her unique literary world, at the same time, and we should see the shortcomings in her novels:some novels are not deep enough, too dogmatic, Some novels, structure are stereotype. However, writing is a self-contained process, Lu Min with her novels brought a special experience, a literature world of her own.