On Shituo’s Orchard City

Shituo is a writer with rich works and full of characteristic in the history of Chinese modern literature.The novel collection of Orchard City embodies the writer’s artistic pursuit and artistic achievement.Shituo have a creative to“City” as the leading role,from the City’s perspective,to observe the whole orchard city.In the history of Chinese literature,a special writing for a city is very rare.In the history of literature we are familiar with as Lu Xun’s “Lu town” series of articles,and these works is also collected for later researchers,while Shituo is consciously assembled.He consciously to writing for a “City”,let the city as the protagonist.The value of this is undoubtedly worth remembering by the history of literature.Shituo was young to leave home to go to Peking,and later went to Shanghai.So the writer wrote his hometown in the non-hometown.Orchard City is named from the writer’s psychological sense of the hometown orchard city.To the orchard city itself and the people’s living space as a base.Through the fate of the people and the landscape of the orchard city,showing the complete orchard city.In the Orchard City,there is a strong personal feelings of writers.The novel has a meticulous description of this beautiful,withered and indifferent town with a double approach of memory and reality,multiple perspectives,and cross narratives.Writer’s orchard city is not only the orchard city itself,but all of China’s small town.The decay and backwardness of the orchard city is the decay and backwardness of the whole of China.And its people’s ignorance,frustration,pain and struggle,but also reflects the living conditions of the entire Chinese people.Therefore,the novel has cultural value in addition to the value of literature.This article takes the Orchard City as the narrative object which published in May 1946 by Shanghai Publishing Company.In the history of literature,there are different views on the artistic characteristics and artistic achievements of Orchard City.In this article,the evaluation of this novel will also have the author "I" personal cognitive dimension and emotional tendencies.This paper is divided into four chapters,the first chapter from the space writing analysis of the Orchard City.The second chapter focuses on the narrative strategy implied in the text of Orchard City,and analyzes the artistic skills of the writer from three aspects: narrative angle,narrator and narrative posture.The third chapter is about existence of individual life,the women,intellectuals,trekking,small people and other people that appears in the article,to their living environment madea detailed description.Showing the writer’s attempt to respond to the fate of the nation from the fate of the individual.The fourth chapter gives a simple evaluation of the artistic characteristics and achievements of Orchard City from the author’s creative attitude and artistic pursuit.