The Lame Man Doesn't Forget His Shoes Which He Could Put On Before He Became Lame

It is 1949 that become a great turning point in Shen Congwen's literary career.If we take this year as a intermediate point in his literary career,we can see two different parts.His literary career that before 1949 is so brilliant and magnificent.However,the literary career after 1949 is much worse than the career before 1949.Even so,Shen Congwen has written some good works after 1949.These works are so readable that could be read so many times.Shen Congwen wrote five novels,eighty-seven poems and more than one hundred prose after 1949.If we include his letters and diaries,the number will more than that.But in general,the artistic quality of these works are so mediocre,and neither quality nor quantity is satisfactory.In these works that written after 1949,the highest achievement is in prose.In the history of contemporary literature,Shen Congwen is intentionally or not to be " absent ",which has changed with the concept of " potential writing ".Therefore,we should not only recognize Shen Congwen,a writer of modern literature,but also recognize Shen Congwen,a writer who has quietly persist in " potential writing " in the history of contemporary literature.Besides,we should pay attention toShen Congwen's works,which were written after 1949.These works are not totally "potential writing".We also need to see his enthusiasm for the mainstream of the art and literature in the early days of the People's Republic of China after 1949.He wrote a large number of political lyric works of praising writing style.These works appeared in three fields of literary creation,such as fiction,poetry and prose.Now,it seems that Shen Congwen,a writer,has indeed show a changed in the view of literature,and also the persevering in the independence and autonomy of literature,after he went through so many campaigns and the " thought reformed movement " in his later life.Fortunately,Shen Congwen eventually returned to the writer that he had been before.It was the writer that maintained the spiritual independence and freedom of thought.Not only had he persisted in his adherence to literature since he took literature writing as his work,he also had insisted on the belief in the two everlasting values of beauty and goodness in literature,until the end of his life.We can see this return from the last fiction " Who's coming?",and the prose that Shen Congwen wrote in his old age.