Desolation In Chi Zijian’s Novel Creation

Chi Zijian is a special presence in the contemporary Chinses literary circle.Although she didn’t go with the stream,her novels are widely popular and loved by readers and critics.Desolation is keynote of Chi Zijian’s novels.The aesthetic pursuit of desolation is always inserted into her works,which forms her unique artistic core.In Chi Zijian’s novel text,"desolate" always can be felt.Desolation of natural scenery brings a person touched;urban landscape let us feel cold;society’s desolation reflected in those texts about the past and the present.But desolation about life and fate appears most often in Chi Zijian’s novals,it embodies writer’s opinion about what is life.Her own experience and her admiration for the art of tragedy make Chi Zijian develop an aesthetic mentality of taking sadness as beauty and consciously representing desolation in her novel creation.It is neither Xiao Hong’s cultural criticism nor Zhang Ailing’s nothingness.It is a manifestation of the commom tragedy of life.It does not deny life,on the contrary,it affirms the meaning of existence and expresses desolation which is with strength and hope.For the wirter herself,desolation characteristic of Chi Zijian’s novels carries the personal life experience.In a literal way,Chi Zijian’s desolation has enlightment significance to the realistic problems and the human spirit status quo.In terms of Chinese culture,Chi Zijian’s desolation inherits the lyric tradition of Chinese modern novels and opens up its expression path,which is the continuation of the lyric tradition of modern novels in the contemporary Chinese literary circle.Chi Zijian’s spiritual writing on the desolation makes her novel creation have the significance of literary hertory.The first part of ther paper introduces the desolation aesthetics of Chi Zijian’s novels.That is,desolation of scenery,desolation of society,desolation of life and destiny.The second part introduces the background of the desolation aesthetics of Chi Zijian’s novels.The childhood life had a great influence on Chi Zijian and was the source of her literary creation.Chi Zijian loves Chinese traditional literature and she is a fan of Russian literature.All these factors together make Chi Zijian develop an aesthetic mentality of taking sadness as beauty and consciously express desolation in her novel writing.The third part compares Chi Zijian with Xiao Hong and Zhang Ailing to explore the meaning of her desolation characteristics.Compared with these two writers,Chi Zijian’s novels show a desolation interlaced with warmth and hope.It affirms the existence of life and wraps up the praise of the energy of life.Her novel creation has the aesthetic style of desolation but not despair and the spiritual power of inclusive life.The fourth part analyzes the multi-dimensional value of desolation aesthetics in Chi Zijian’s novels.Desolate writing is of great significance for the author himself,care and mental care and civilization of the novel,has a certain practical value in the cultural,Chi Zijian promotes the desolation of the novel writing inherits the local culture and the lyric tradition of Chinese literature,the novels of the desolate aesthetic contains spiritual power and the value of her creation shows the sense of literary history.