自逃遁到身心安頓－沈從文、汪曾祺文學與文物書寫軌跡

Shen Cong-Wen stopped writing at the end of 1949, bidding farewell to his role as a renowned fiction writer known for his novel ”Border Town”.
However, the change has not destroyed his creativity, but instead his fate has transformed him into another Shen Cong-Wen, an art connoisseur.
His transformation may be caused by inevitable historical factors, but the way he plunged himself into the study of art has demonstrated himself as a model to initiate Wang Zeng-Qi, another writer-artist of the same vein who was under Shen's influence and tutelage for more than half a century. Both Shen-Wang's writings on material culture or ”elegant things” transcended and tempered the tempestuous world of socialist struggles into rolls of classical embroidered silk.
They delved into ”things” and described ”things”. Things have become a substance of their narratives with a historical perspective that range from the material writings of Song-Ming literati to Zhou Juo-Ren of the early twentieth century. This article will focus on the interchanging aspects of escapism and redemption that vacillate and swing like a pendulum in the mentality of these writers.