Dilemma And Breakout

In recent years, with the "post-70" writers research form an upsurge, more and more outstanding writers emerge into public view. Xu Zechen was born in 1978, he works for the current "People’s Literature" magazine. He published novels since 2002, and now more than two million words. After two novels "Flower Street" and "ah, Beijing" published in 2004, Xu Zechen came into prominence in the literary world. More than a decade been ceaseless creation and high quality of the literary works won numerous awards for him, and now Xu Zechen has become the leader of "post-70" writers. Xu Zechen’s novels face the pain and difficulty of the human spirit,insight into the heart of the contradictions and conflicts, and show the humble and live life attitude. He has the humanities concern. His works are substantial in content, clever in conception; his style of writing is calm, quiet and full of seasoned mature charm. The art forms of the novels are also worthy of note. As an important representative of the "post-70" writers, Xu Zechen shows the new narrative experience with novels belong to post-70 generation. By the novels and achievements of Xu Zechen in recent years, it is not difficult to find his determination of exploring and breaking out continuously, as well as the value of Xu Zechen and his works.Based on the title "predicament and breakthrough", this paper discusses the "post-70" writer Xu Zechen’s novels. The introduction part introduces general situation of the creation of Xu Zechen, summarizes the research status of his novels as well as the significance of this paper,research programs and methods, etc. The main part of this paper is divided into four chapters, the first chapter from the perspective of literary criticism and intergeneration, elaborates the predicament that "post-70" writers group Xu Zechen belongs to had been "obscured" and the reasons, as well as "post-70" writers’ breakthrough and the prominence of Xu Zechen in recent years; The second chapter from the perspective of the spiritual core of works, discusses the thinking and exploring to human spirit dilemma that Xu Zechen’s novels show, including the identity crisis and anxiety of outsider, people’s mental pain of modernity, lost faith and other issues. At the same time, this chapter discusses exploration and insistence of characters to break spirit dilemma; The third chapter from the perspective of creative methods and artistic characteristics, discusses Xu Zechen’s efforts and the value of his works in the current difficulties faced by the pure literary writing, his novels construct the narrative space of everyday life, have historical consciousness with distinctive subjective self-consciousness, and show thecharacteristics of "classic" mixed with "modern" in the aspect of artistic form; The fourth chapter from the overall perspective of Xu Zechen’s creation, discusses deficiencies and limitations of his works, including the phenomenon of repetition on patterns, plots, etc, some works have patterns of narrow, such as the connotation of thin, characters personality of single, as well as the disadvantages of tender writing, etc, at the same time, this chapter expounds attempt of Xu Zechen to break out on creation, there were something new in the new creation themes and new full-length novel. The conclusion part of this article summarizes the viewpoints, looking forward Xu Zechen towards a higher level in the future.