| In the late1990s, the Henan women writers Shao Li began her professional literary work. Her works revolves around the theme of women’s emotional life and female psychological changes. In a short period of time, she wrote "Ming Hui’s Christmas","Blurred" and "Empty House", a large number of short stories, which were favored by many famous journals, formed a special group of audience, and attracted the attention of the critics. Since then a few years, she launched the "My quality of life","The Notes during Taking a Temporary Post","Liu Wanfu Case""My Quality of Survival","The fortieth Circle" and so on, which explored and concerned the reality, the society, the life with a more deep vision, showing the pursuit of progress and the pursuit of literature.Shao Li’s novels are basically around the four dimensions:rural and urban, folk and officialdom, male and female and the ideal and the reality. In her writings, rural life is dull. Though farmers have good instincts, they do not know how to be flexible upright. Farmers are intelligent and even cunning, simple and even oppressive. The city is a paradise of life, but the urban are weary and weak, lack of spirit calcium. So between rural and urban, there is a double barrier:material and spiritual, and it is difficult to breakthrough. Officialdom is not changing unpredictably, not always life-or-death struggles. Officials also have desires, joys and sorrows. Though folk is vulgar, there are the survival of the wisdom and strong vitality. Living in the city, the men and women in the countryside, in front of the era of rapid change, both felt helpless and upset. Idealism feelings still rooted in the hearts of many people, but the reality is often with an invisible but powerful passivation dispelling the wings of the ideal.Under the four dimensions, there is Shao Li’s tireless quest of authenticity of life. Both to the root of living memory recall, or real careful life experience, or the constant pursuit of the pure feelings, can we all experience the author’s perseverance and patience to discover the life as it is.Observing Shao Li’s novel creation course, it is not difficult to find that most of her early works focused on city, women, and the location of good and the beautiful. With the passage of time, she has richer life experiences. Then her work gradually adjusted to focus on farmers, the folk, the society, and the performance of pain. It accorded with the trend of the contemporary literature "Bottom Narrative". And the author’s writing style provided technical support for her successful transformation of narrative angleIn subsequent novels, on widening the gap between literature and life, increasing the reality into writing, maybe these two points should Shao Li improve. |
