Xili is good at wandering among the three genres of poetry, prose, and novels, and she is skilled at doing mental gymnastics in both positive and negative dimensions. The novel "Snow Robe" is no exception. Buffon said: Style is people. Perhaps, this is a fixed number for her? Speaking of rising to a more abstract level, Xili's writing clearly adheres to romantic aesthetics. She writes novels, like Sun Monkey with a flagpole hidden behind her buttocks¡ªa romantic, poetic, and dreamy flagpole. This reminds me of the exotic German romantic aesthetics. German romantic aesthetics has experienced two hundred years of history from the rise of early romanticism to contemporary neo-Marxist aesthetics. One has seen how this tradition of thought is like a poet in search of the gods, desperately searching for the poetry of life. Whether it is the ontology of poetry or the poetry of ontology, it is ultimately to resolve the universal split between experience and transcendence, reality and ideal, finiteness and infinity, history and origin. The generation of life to poetry. In my opinion, this desire is particularly suitable as the theme of Xili's novel.
Simply put, "Snow Robe" is a fable about growth and love. It is said that a snake needs to shed its skin many times in its life, and every time it sheds its skin, it grows a little bit. The life change of the protagonist Zhou Xin at the age of 13 made him feel more unbearable pain than shedding his skin. After experiencing escape and suffering, feeling pain and sorrow, it was love that gave him strength and gave him the courage to face the unknown life in the future. He has no mother. But with the love of grandpa and dad. The accident caused him to wander abroad. Human traffickers, rat nests, and the noise of the big city hit him all at once, making him feel overwhelmed. He had all kinds of dreams. He makes friends, recognizes beauty, experiences warmth, and experiences melancholy. In a trafficked encounter, he escaped. As a "lone warrior", he rescued all the children who were controlled by traffickers. Dad said: "Take a mirror on the road, there will be light, and you can find what you want." Zhou Xin wandered around the city with the mirror. And growth is discovered instantly, in the mirror, in the sunlight. Obviously, "Snow Robe" is a "big brow novel". Comparing "Snow Robe" with "Lonely Journey" and earlier "Sanmao Wanderings", "Little Bell", "The Adventures of Little Raghead" and other growth novels, although there are differences in themes and fields, there are also differences in storytelling. There are different strengths and weaknesses, but they all cut into the text from the theme of "growth" or "loneliness". It's just that Xili's novel has once again brought into play the poetic characteristics and the strengths of poetic existence of the text. This, I have discovered in the process of reading. In fact, I really want to break out of the old thinking of reading Xili's novels and find another way. I even thought, why didn't she change her way of writing and write novels in another style? After thinking about it, if that's the case, is Xili still Xili? If so, she might become Zhang Xin or Sheng Ke. While reading, I glimpsed the breath of poetry that cannot be concealed under "Snow Robe", and experienced the warmth and sadness of the protagonist's "growth". The novel brings me step by step into the poetic world of growing up in the "poetic" theme, language and details. In the process of communicating and colliding with the text of the novel, and in the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of reading the text carefully, I discovered and appreciated the poetic charm of the text, thereby feeling the text and resonating with the touching growth experience conveyed by the text.
The beautiful poetic language of Xili's novels, the elegant writing posture, the melancholy and compassionate humanistic care, and the aesthetic taste persistent in classicism, etc., moved me. "Snow Robe" is written in a steady manner, with a slow pace. Especially the language, pure, transparent, simple, clear, with poetic taste of different shades. There are a lot of dialogues, similar to dialogues in dramas or film and television. The plot is not strong, it is more like prose, and in some places it is simply prose poetry. There are not many details described, and a large proportion of the entire text is the advancement of the plot and the dialogue of the characters, and there are few detailed descriptions and environmental descriptions. This has widened the gap with the experience of reading novels in the general sense, and this may be Xili. In other words, this difference just reflects the poetic aesthetic appeal of Xili's novels. It is true that, for all poetic novels, the plot and narrative are not strong, and they are replaced by poetic brushwork and artistic conception. It pursues the beauty of language, artistic conception and implicit beauty of the novel. In the history of modern Chinese literature, Shen Congwen, Fei Ming, He Qifang, Feng Zhi, Xiao Hong, Wang Zengqi, etc. are all representatives of this style. "Poetic novels" are novels in essence, and they are different from poetry after all. Poetry is lyrical in nature, and thinking is jumping; while poetic novels are still narrative, but it tells a story poetically and beautifully. Undoubtedly, "Snow Robe" was carried out and completed in this way. Xili pursued the romantic effect of artistic infection, pursued the eternal charm of literature, and at the same time absorbed the tragic spirit of Western classical children's literature represented by Andersen's fairy tales, so It makes the work have the possibility of surrealism. In my opinion, "Snow Robe" has a certain spiritual connection with Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. In a sense, the novel shines with the brilliance of "ugly duckling". shaped the weekXin, Dad, Grandpa, Zhao Gui, Xiao Gen, Bei Chuan, A Xing, A Huang and a series of images, after tasting, it is not difficult to find that all of them are shining with the brilliance of love. In particular, father and grandfather are not Zhou Xin's real father and grandfather. But they poured more love than blood into this unfortunate child. The novel writes from a child¡¯s point of view: ¡°Father¡¯s principles are simpler than grandpa¡¯s. He said that to live alone in this world, one must love something sincerely In short, you must let your heart have sustenance, and you must I firmly believe that whatever you love will be returned to you in the end. I believe that it is these two good people who planted something in my bones. Whenever I think about what they say, be careful It will calm down." At that time, Zhou Xin's mother, Wang Xiaoya, secretly abandoned him after giving birth to him, and it was his grandfather who took him home and raised him. Around Zhou Xin, in the process of his life growth, there are countless loves. This allowed him to avoid unbearable suffering and loneliness in his life growth. The novel conveys poetically the journey of the protagonist looking for his grandfather and mother. In the process of growing up in life, Zhou Xin has learned to be resourceful and brave, to love others sincerely, and to face the ups and downs of life. Gorky said that language is the first element of literature. Language is also an important grasp of the charm of the novel¡ªthe language of the novel sometimes even determines the life and death of the text. An excellent novel, its story may be forgotten after many years, but its unique and charming language features can be deeply remembered by readers. In my opinion, "Snow Robe" conveys a poetic and abstract theme: growing up in loneliness and love. Whether it is the environment, the plot, the characters, or the touching details, they are all carried by language. Poetic language is the first element I entered into "Snow Robe". The novel revolves around the theme of "growing up in solitude and love", and quiet and beautiful sentences and paragraphs can be seen everywhere. From the hot words of the novel text, I really realized the simple truth of "there is true love in the world", and captured the inextricable "poetic environment of love" and "poetic expression of love". ¡¯ and ¡®Poetic Characters of Love¡¯.
"Snow Robe" tells us with a unique style of text: growth is a process, it must be full of twists and turns and difficulties, even sad and cruel, but it is the company of love that makes life grow. In this sense, it is a great misfortune for the orphan Zhou Xin to be abandoned by his biological mother since he was a child, but it is a great fortune among misfortunes for him to meet a kind grandfather and father¡ªbecause he returned from the loveless wilderness to the loving one. mind. In the novel, Ah Huang, Jacques and other little friends "don't know" their respective origins, they "don't come from the same place. Some were sold to Fujian, but he escaped by himself. Some got lost in the street. Road. There are a few, brought by the boss from the mountains in northern Guangdong." Ah Huang "was lost on the street and was caught by the boss." And "Jacques' father married a mistress, so Jacques took a sum of money from the family and ran away." How sad and absurd! In fact, this kind of desolation and absurdity is not unique. Therefore, "pain" and "love" seem to be "catalysts" in chemistry. Any of us will encounter "pain" in our growth and yearn for "love". We all need the "catalysis" of these two things before we can Grow up. Especially "love", its effect on the growth of life is like air, sunshine, cloth and food, and it cannot be separated even for a moment. Compared with "pain", it should be a normal state¡ªif the degree is appropriate. It It represents a kind of tempering of personality. Its existence makes people less false and fragile. It makes people have a kind of growth on the bumpy road of life. Therefore, the ancients said, "The sharp edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the plum blossom Fragrance comes from the bitter cold¡±; ¡°Heroes have always suffered a lot since ancient times.¡± Of course, if we only have ¡°pain¡± and lack ¡°love¡± in the world, this world will become very cold, desolate, and very unhappy. It is conducive to the growth of life. The rain and dew nourish the seedlings and grow strong, and all things grow by the sun. "Snow Robe" made me realize that growth is a leap in the life course of a teenager, but this leap often requires certain conditions to facilitate its completion. And "pain" And "love" is a baptism of growth, a kind of necessity, a kind of "catalysis". Growth is not a result, but a process. Maybe Zhou Xin is you, me, him (or her), and us Everyone. Zhou Xin grew up from a "little boy" to a "little man", and it was in the torture of "pain" and the touch of "love" that he grew up day by day.
To read Xili's "Snow Robe", one needs to have a "poetic heart". Without a "poetic heart" and a poetic vision, one cannot feel the beauty of poetic novels, enjoy the present life poetically, let alone face the suffering and love in growing up poetically. In fact, in the current era where the commercial atmosphere is too heavy, people's material pursuits are urgent, and the body and soul need comfort, children are eager to grow up poetically, and adults hope to live poetically on the earth. On the journey of life, I am more eager to wander poetically among the reeds of literary aesthetics and be a thoughtful reed. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)Website URL: www.hlnovel.com