A Desolate Tragic Song Of Life In The Turbulent Days

Miss. Zhang Ailing herself left "a beautiful and desolate gesture" to the Chinese literature of 20th century with the collection of her works, the Legend, in which the desolation was the main character for appreciation of the beautiful as a whole. The writer grasped veraciously the despondent and downfallen character of the figures in her novels. She portrayed an obsolete, closed and downfallen "memory" of the flaccid and common people in the times of transition with her unique realization of life. With a desolate and sharp angle of view of "appreciation of ugly", she wrote her works in a pose of anti-heroism and romanticism and took love affairs and marriage as cutting points reflecting a common, eternal and desolate tragic life under the desolate background elaborately built by her. Being concerned about the humanity that based on peace sought by the people and the tragedy hidden among it, Miss. Zhang observed the tragedy with the eyes of "humanity". She described their tragedies through their daily lives and common things, so the tragedy under her pen goes beyond personal aspects, and is full of rich enlightenments of life, and thereby widens its connotation and extension.