Let's take a look at her work first. Can Xue's short stories include Soap Bubbles on Sewage, Sorrow in a Beautiful Sunny Day in Amei, Yuan Ye, Bull, Cabin on the Mountain, My Things in that World, Dialogue between Heaven and Skylight, etc., and novellas include Huangni Street and Old Age.
This is public information, which can be seen everywhere. Let's say something we can't find.
Can Xue is not famous in China, but she still has a high status in the novel world, especially abroad, and can even be said to be a god figure.
But I don't recommend reading her novels. If you want to see how wonderful this Nobel Prize in Literature winner's novel is with a normal heart, you will probably feel sick after reading it.
Her novels are strange in writing, ambiguous in metaphor, extremely ambiguous, and unconventional in narrative, giving people a feeling of being far-fetched. The style is grotesque and erratic, and the language also has the flavor of translation cavity.
Her idol is Kafka, and she thinks she has surpassed her idol.
But it is this style that normal people can't understand that has won her great praise. Her novels have the most Japanese translations, and we know that Japanese novels are as bizarre as their films. In Japanese eyes, the best novelists in China are Mo Yan, Yan Lianke and Can Xue. In the eyes of avant-garde Americans, the best novelist in China is Can Xue.
Are we ignorant of novels or foreigners ignorant of novels?
Neither.
We like to see works with clear logic, tense plot and beautiful writing. We are ordinary people who are generally addicted to chicken soup, positive energy and works that conform to our traditional cultural structure. We are old-fashioned and don't want to change ourselves.
It seems that we don't like Lu Xun anymore. Can Xue and Lu Xun can't be compared, but this way of revealing bloody things through words and putting them in front of us is somewhat similar.
Lu Xun exposed human nature, and Canxue stripped his soul.
But literary and artistic works need to touch the soul. What is the difference?
Our traditional or modern literature reveals the ideological flow behind it through characters and plots. We usually think that good works are "read in" and "empathetic", and we can feel the beauty or filth of the soul by substituting the protagonist.
But Xue is different. She has an innate way of thinking, which can completely crush the souls of characters and then show them to readers. The object of her novel is the soul itself. We should always be prepared to be stabbed by her when we read her words. It is precisely because of her way of thinking that her novels are in a mess, just like post-modern magic paintings, giving normal people the impression that they can't grasp her logic, which makes people feel dizzy and want to vomit.
This is just like all kinds of quaint modern poems in our contemporary poetry circles. Just because we can't read doesn't mean they are bad. They actually hide the main line in chaos, or