On The Writing Of Dongrui’s Short-short Stories

Dongrui, a HongKong writer, had made his great efforts in writing for more than40years, from1970s till date and published120books covering multi-kinds ofliterature such novels,essays, commentaries and etc, among which, there are12short-short story collections. Dongrui is really a prolific writer both HongKong-basedand Mainland-based. In2011, he was awarded a "lifetime achievement of short-shortstories" on "The Forth Session of Short-short Stories Festival" helded in ZhengzhouChina. Probing into the facts of life in the international metropolis-Hongkong-in hisshort-short stories by creating the roles in modern city, Dongrui has brought thebeauty of humanistic and ugliness of human nature to his readers. To learn Dongrui’sshort-short stories is to learn the interplay between HongKong society and Dongrui’sshort-short stories, and is to glimpse the development track of HongKong short-shortstories.The unique political, economical and cultural background of HongKong providesplenty of materials for Dongrui’s short-short stories, and also contributes to themarked features of era and society in his novels. Dongrui’s own experiences of lifeand the pursuit of literature merit set him onto the path of literary life; Developmentof newspapers supplement provides him the literary platform for short-short storieswriting. Following the writing principles of realism as "For life", his short-shortstories tend to use artistic invention to express profound themes and objectivefeelings. Creative, risk taking use of modernism of fantasies and imaginations andperfect mastery on narrative perspectives also add many attractive points to hisshort-short stories. No matter a literate of spiritual wandering, a divorced woman, a little man or an old man who lives at the edge of society can interpret the sick of lifedeeply in his short-short stories. Dongrui targets at bringing great concerns to life bydescribing human feelings, death and the pursuit of meaning of surviving. Thespiritual thoughts Dongrui wants to express in his stories are to break away fromworldly shackles and go back to humanistic spirits.This paper attempts to research Dongrui’s writing motive in multiaspects, from thebackground and from the writing reason of his stories. To analyze his realism writingprinciple "for life" and his different writing techniques can make us better understandthe characteristics of his stories. Basing on sorting and analyzing the characters inDongrui’s stories, combining with the researching in the thematic implication ofstories, we can further confirm that Dongrui plays an important role and acts withgreat functions to the development of HongKong Short-short Story Arts.