Su Tong's Novels And Chinese Narrative Tradition

Su Tong stepped into the literary world as a pioneer writer.In fact,Su Tong's writing gradually deviated from the original pioneer experimental color and showed a return to the tradition starting from the middle and late 1980 s,which had many similarities with the Chinese narrative tradition.The reason why Su Tong looks back to the tradition is closely related to his life in the city south of the Yangtze river with strong classical culture,as well as his sensitivity and melancholy temperament,and then related to the family influence in his childhood.The fiction of Su Tong reveals a fantasy poetry,which is writing ghosts and gods and shaping legendary characters with ethereal narrative elements.At the same time,it constructs the poetic flavor of the novel with the ancient and elegant language.It is following the strange ethereal fantasy and the characteristics of poems and songs in the tang dynasty with the features of fantasy and poetry.Su tong's novels are imaginative reconstruction of history,and he has inherited and changed the tradition of "telling history".Inheritance is often described as family feuds,emperors and princes.The new changes are no longer confined to "three empty and seven solid",and the history was written with the new historicism method.At the same time,It is similar to the narrative structure of the text,such as the plot of "often see strange","inclusive" storytelling.Su Tong writes the infighting between wives and concubines with a strong flavor of classical literati,and most of the "pretty ladies in pink" are reduced to the world of mortals,which is exactly the same as the traditional Chinese fiction such as The Golden Lotus and a dream of red mansions.The circulation of space environment indicates the change of characters' fate,which is closely related to the moral concepts of the cycle of heaven and karma in the ancient Chinese traditional ideology.This also benefits Su Tong from the chapter of the novel to absorb the nutrition.The connection between Su Tong's novels and Chinese narrative tradition is largely determined by the writers' personal decisions and the cultural atmosphere of The Times,which is the creative transformation of tradition.The fusion and combination of the traditional elements and Su Tong's own western literary accomplishment have formed the unique characteristics of Su Tong's novels.