On Shen Congwen's contribution to literature?

Literary works such as Border Town, Xiangxi and Autobiography of Shen Congwen have great influence at home and abroad. His works have been translated and published by more than 40 countries such as Japan, the United States, Britain and the former Soviet Union, and have been selected into university textbooks by the United States, Japan, South Korea, Britain and other countries or regions 10, and twice nominated as Nobel Prize in Literature candidates.

Mr. Wang wrote five million words in his life, including Border Town, Long River and Autobiography of Congwen. In his later years, the monograph "Research on Ancient Chinese Costume" filled a blank in the history of China's material culture.

Shen Congwen is the main executor and thinker of the rural world with special significance. He believes that "beauty lies in life". Although I am in a hypocritical, selfish and indifferent city, I am obsessed with the beauty of human nature.

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Shen Congwen's writing style tends to be romantic. He demanded the poetic effect of the novel, combining realism, recalling dreams and symbolism. The language style is simple, the sentence pattern is simple and steep, the trunk is prominent, simple and heavy, simple and vivid, with strong local color, which highlights the unique charm and spirit of rural humanity.

Shen Congwen's rural novels are typical rural cultural novels, which are in contrast with the "modern civilization" of the city as a whole and always pay attention to the modern transformation process of the western Hunan world.

The life style, life footprint and historical destiny of rural people stipulated by the collision of different cultures, the whole work is full of hidden worries and philosophical thinking about life, just like his true and tenacious life, giving people lessons and enlightenment.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Shen Congwen