The Guardian In The Dark

Can Xue exists differently and importantly in the contemporary literary field of China.She persists in the exploration of spirit, and she has opened up an aesthetic space that only belongs to her own depending on her very personalized creation and has entirely separated relation from tradition, which brings us completely new reading experience. But it just brings many difficulties for the interpretation of her works. The most distinctive impression left by Can Xue’s novel is just secret. While, we find through the observation of literary criticism and novel creation that her novel is visualized deduction and concrete expression of her idea. And it is the realistic record of tangling and fighting between Nous and Logos in her spiritual world. It is the thought experiment she explores the human future. So to speak, understanding for Can Xue’s literature view means the mastery of the most important secret symbol to break the mystery of Can Xue.Mysteriousness is nothing but the coat of Canxue’s novels. The mysterious characteristics of her novel text could be attributed to various factors, including the character setting of highly abstraction and irrationality, the world with human and ghost coexistence and subjective initiative, the plentiful ethereal awareness activities, and the inconsistent plots. However, the Canxue-style mysteriousness is different from the irrational mystery. Above the mysteriousness, the intention of the author is always there manipulating everything. As it involves understanding the world with the aid of the method of "mutual induction",her language style tends to be highly poetic. In an attempt not to be impacted by the empirical reason, the strategy of "lucid dream" is thus applied in her novels. In addition, the description object of the intermediate zone below the ultimate and above the worldly implies a certain ineffability, which makes the text seem rather ambiguous. In contrast, all these styles were renewed with the creation of Canxue ushering in a new century. Her style of text changed from the extreme "evil", "grotesque" and"hostility" to the beauty, light and harmony, which became the genuine "Phototaxis Movement". Behind the shift of style,it was Canxue’s deepening reflection on the fate of world and human destiny as a whole. There was time when she was incompatible with the world. Years later, however, she started to think with a view to save the world. Moreover,through more mature thinking about the relationship between nous and the logos, she attained the new enlightenment, namely achieving the state of truth based on "desperate action".According to Canxue, comprehension is in itself a test set up by her for the reader, which is precisely the pure spirit-oriented action of experiencing self awareness and understanding the soul construction. It has no slightest distinction with her creation process and the various adventures of characters. It also justifies why it is especially necessary to probe into the initial intention of the writer, restore the true feature of her works, understand the aesthetic mechanism behind the text, and interpret the metaphor and implication underlying the text.