Study On Wang Xiangfu’s Short Novels

Wang Xiangfu is one of the representative writers of contemporary literature in Shanxi province. He writes industriously and follows the principle that’no work, no food’. His literature creations has an achievement as well as painting and calligraphy. He has his own concept of writing short stories. Wang published his virginal short story’Two Orange Lights’in1984. Till today he has received great achievements in the field of short novels. He won the third Luxun Literature Prize and his creations often appeared on the list of the Chinese top fictions. After reading his short stories, I have found that the aesthetic characteristics and configurations of narration in Wang’s novels are unique. Based on this, this treatises aimed at studying on the wholeness and value of Wang Xiangfu’s works.The first chapter analyzed the themes and tendency of Wang Xiangfu’s short novels. The themes in his words included educated youth, farmers in suburb, strangers in cities and urbanites. As time changed, Wang kept exploring in aesthetic fields and his writing style changed from pioneer to realistic as well as from acute to gentle.The second chapter focused on the aesthetic characteristics in Wang’s words. What he cared was individual life especially nonentities’ happiness and sorrow. From the trival daily life at the bottom, Wang discussed some current social issues and thought about some metaphysical questions like fates and destinies of humans’.The third Chapter discussed configurations of narration in Wang’s short novels. Wang always used unrelated description to dilute plots and ended stories when they came to climax. He also elaborated on small details in life and interweaved blank and suspence. Besides, exterior focusing brought impersonality and reality while internal focusing led to exposures of characters’minds. Wang’s language was chaste, however, they also contained repetition,irony and paradoxes in order to make those short stories implicit.The forth chapter tried to locate the meanings of Wang’s short stories. He insisted on tiny narrations in order to reveal a historic views and he depicted endemic folk cultures. Through those works, Wang showed his ultimate concern of lives and cultural criticism. Not only did Wang’s writing contribute to Shanxi’s regional literature, but also it made beneficial exploring for the bottom literature and Chinese contemporary literature.