"Without The Word": Spiritual Rhapsody And Artistic Explorations Of Zhang Jie

The famous Chinese contemporary writer Zhang Jie is renowned for the works ofwomen’s issues, and she is rich in the sensitive female consciousness. She adopts herown unique life experience throughout her writing and the spiritual growth of thewomen is reflected in her works. The novel of “Without the Word” was published at thebeginning of the new century, the clue of which is based on the marriage of women’samong four generations in a matriarchal family. The clue is developing with themarriage of the hero. Zhang Jie shows personal life experience of Wu Wei, the femalefamily history, the magnificent history and the change of the hero in their characters inher work. The author of the thesis makes a deeper discussion on the novel and exploresthe achievements of Zhang Jie by using literary imagination in order to show the wholevariation of the hero’s personality. The thesis explores the balance and weightlessness ofhumanist values of Zhang Jie as an intellectual person. This thesis contacts the previousworks of Zhang Jie:“Love Can Not Be Forgotten”,“Noah’s Ark”,“Lit” etc, analyzingthe various possibilities of Zhang Jie’s spirit writing. The love value of Zhang Jie is notcomplicated until the appearance of “Without the Word”, and the utopia building of themale suddenly collapse. The novel deconstructs “Philippine logocentric” and allowswomen to become the subject of history; the spiritual growth of Zhang Jie is benefitedfrom her own concepts of treating life good, the spiritual homeland given by the femalefamily and warning effect of regative factor. The novel demonstrates the unique lifelandscape of the female family, inherits the female family novel and makes thedevelopment of the writing of the maternal family. The thesis makes an exploration onthe art space, the significant of this novel should be showed by an original form. ZhangJie adopts the characteristic of pioneer literature which focuses on the essence ratherthan the form. The novel also highlights the new historism standpoint; however, ZhangJie goes further than new historical novelist. In all the works of Zhang Jie,“Without theWord” has reached the prime compared with her other novels not only from the content,but also the form. Through reading “Without the Word”, readers can find out the toughseeking to the spiritual homeland and the pleasant expectation for the new century.