What is your favorite contemporary literary author? Please specify in relation to their works

Shen Congwen.

Shen Congwen's creative style tends to be romanticism, the language is simple and ancient, the sentence is simple, the backbone is prominent, simple but thick, simple but vivid, with a strong local color. His work "Biancheng" is the most expressive of the beauty of human nature in Shen Congwen's works, as it holds the aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love".

The western Hunan portrayed in Biancheng is characterized by beautiful natural scenery and simple folkways, where people do not talk about hierarchies or utilitarianism, and where people treat each other with sincerity and mutual love. Grandpa's love for his granddaughter, Cuicui to Nuo Nuo's innocent love, Tianbao brothers to Cuicui sincere love and brotherly love between the sincere brotherly love, these represent the traditional virtues of uncontaminated agricultural civilization.

Shen Congwen's Creative Themes:

Shen Congwen created two main types of novels, one based on life in western Hunan, and the other based on urban life. The former celebrates the beauty of human nature by depicting the primitive and natural forms of life of western Hunanese people; the latter reveals the loss of the natural human nature of the city through the corruption and degradation of urban life.

The rural world under his pen is expressed in the overall pattern of antagonism and mutual reference with the urban society, while the "distortion of human nature" in the upper class society under the urban theme is revealed under the candlelight of the ideal of life of "human and nature in harmony". It is his unique value scale and the connotation of philosophical discernment, constructed Shen Congwen's urban life and the rural world of the bridge.