Wartime Experience and Aesthetic Creation of Sun Li's Anti-Japanese War Novels
Sun Li's literary career began during the anti-Japanese War,for the life experience during the anti-Japanese War was not only an important resource for Sun Li's creation,but also the basic background for the forma-tion of his anti-Japanese War novel style.Sun Li's anti-Japanese War novels have mostly focused on the life of the people in the base areas,with less involvement in war scenes,and have developed a soothing aesthetic style,which is directly related to the combat environment behind enemy lines in the Jin-Cha-Ji(Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei)region and his work experience in the base areas.Sun Li's career as a journalist during the war gave birth to his lit-erary creation,which evolved from correspondence through sketches to fiction,while the stylistic requirements of wartime communications also restricted and affected the textural style of Sun Li's anti-Japanese war novels.The spa-tiotemporal changes brought about by the anti-Jpanese war behind the enemy lines have affected the writer's subjec-tive perception,while the spatial transformation during marches and migration has also formed a plain-mountain narrative structure in his novels.Moreover,the nighttime activities of guerrilla warfare led to the frequent appear-ance of the images of"stars and the moon"in Sun Li's wartime writings.By returing to the original environment of the author's literature at the beginning,we can further discern the experiential context and historical details of Sun Li's anti-Japanese war novels,as well as understand the historical and realistic factors that have formed his literary style and textual appearance.
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