Study on the Influence of Fairy Tale Realism on Xixi's Novel Creation

Abstract

Magic realism was introduced into China in 1970s. Due to the special historical, geographical and cultural background of Hong Kong, Hong Kong literature developed freely and independently with less ideological constraints. Ye Si and Xixi once represented the Hong Kong cultural elite and directly integrated with western culture. As early as 1950s and 1960s, they began to experiment with magical realism to write, almost following the literary trend in Latin America. The book Flying Felt is a linear series of the rise and fall of the Hua family, with magical realism and fairy tale realism, to write the century-old secular life history of Hong Kong (Feitu Town). This paper takes Xixi's Flying Felt as the main research object, and from the perspective of fairy tale realism, summarizes Xixi's "improved" writing of magical realism and diversified writing of fairy tale realism through narrative techniques and language styles in his works, and analyzes the artistic treatment of historical issues in his works. At the same time, it discusses the expression of Hong Kong local consciousness in Xixi's novels.