"Border Town" by Shen Congwen

"Border Town" has a distinctive and unique personality in terms of artistic expression.

1. The author is good at combining the character's language, action description and psychological description to reveal the character's personality characteristics and rich inner world.

For example, in the description of Cuicui, the author quietly observes and speculates on the various moods of the sexual psychology of girls during their puberty and development period. Through the external depiction of rough lines and the delicate psychological description, the author depicts the shy and gentle girl. Personality emerges.

2. The structure of the novel is both rigorous and relaxed. The whole story gradually unfolds around Cuicui's love story, and the plot is concentrated and simple. The work takes Nuo Song and Tianbao's love for Cuicui as the weft thread, and the old boatman's concern and arrangement for his granddaughter's marriage as the weft thread, which promotes the rhythm of the story. develop forward. Cuicui's love entanglement with Nuosong and Tianbao is used as an overt thread, and Wang Tuanzong's desire for Nuosong to be his son-in-law is used as a hidden thread. The interweaving of warp and weft, the combination of light and dark, perfectly combines the simplicity and complexity of the plot.

3. The author deliberately intersperses the description of Miao customs such as antiphonal songs, marriage proposal, and dragon boat racing in the development of the story. In particular, the description of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival is used to show the natural environment and humanistic environment of the border town. It is not only a poetic revelation of the local nature of the "border town", but also a complicated and confusing poetic foil.

4. The artistic style of "Border Town" is a lyrical poem and a romantic pastoral.

The love story between Cuicui and Nuosong has become the carrier of poetry, and lyricism is the "power" and purpose of the novel. The author's narrative pen pours and flows with the author's poetic praise and chant of "love" and "beauty". The author also pursues poetic expression in art. The rich "subtext" in Cuicui's heart is discovered with the line drawing and charm of actions and dialogues; in terms of plot structure, the interweaving of warp and weft and the combination of light and dark are used to highlight the inner emotional rhythm; in terms of description of local customs, the activities of the characters are placed in the A poetic and picturesque artistic conception is formed on the pictures of customs and customs.

The story of "Border Town" is basically based on fantasy. The creative method used is romanticism, which is half "dream" and half ideal "reality". It is not a portrait of the society at that time. The characters and stories are the true detachment and transcendence of the society at that time. The author consciously eliminates various opposing factors in the world of "border town". The ending of the work adopts a relatively peaceful ending, not a despairing ending, and the ending is more like a pastoral sentiment with lingering aftertaste.