Anxiety in Calmness and Calmness in Anxiety

Abstract

The striking themes,extravagant narration,and imposition of creative subject upon the fate of characters in the root-seeking novels of 1980's all reveal the anxiety of a transitional society.Shen Congwen,in his novel "Countrymen",gives an artist's answer to the problems of a future society when the world will inevitably become economically and culturally integrated.He deals with the problem of nervousness and anxiety of the modern society from an angle of pluralistic aesthetics and creates a lot of excellent literay works.After all,the novelists of the root-seeking school of the 1980's never went beyond the limitation of the current tendency,and never rose to the level of Shen Congwen.