Abstract

As a famous modern female writer in the 20th century, Xiao Hong completed 11 collections of works with nearly one million words in just nine years. These creations of hers are divided into two stages: the mainland period and the Hong Kong period, and the Hong Kong period is the mature period and peak period of Xiao Hong's creation, which established her stable position in the literary world. In recent years, with the renaissance of Northeast literature, Xiao Hong's research has gradually increased, but there has not been an overall inspection of Hong Kong's works from the perspective of existentialism. In order to make up for this vacancy, the author chooses the two novellas Tales of Hulan River and Ma Bo'le's Second Life and the two short stories Spring in a Small Town and The Story of Red Glass written during the Hong Kong period as the research objects of this paper. Complying with the inner and outer line principles of literary appreciation put forward by the modern literary critic Liang Zongdai, and based on the theory of Paul Tillich, a representative of American existentialism, the four works are reinterpreted as a whole.

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