The Research Of Zhang Wei’s Essays

Zhang Wei has been well-known for his novels, however, if the novels are the imaginations of the world, the essays are the mirrors of his thoughts. Zhang Wei creates essays in a low profile, he pours words into realities, with a sharp pain and breakthrough of consciousness. He sticks to the principles and undertakes responsibilities with the attitude of "intervention". He calls on the pure land of thoughts. The paper treats the whole of Zhang Wei’s essays as the research object, explores the types of arts, language features, spiritual orientation, cultural sources of Chinese and foreign culture.The introduction part defines the identity of Zhang Wei as essayist, briefly describes the concept and current research status of Zhang Wei’s essays. In addition, the paper puts forward the methods of writing and research.First chapter emphasizes the whole of Zhang Wei’s essays as the research object, according to the artistic features and the contents, his essays can be divided into five types:the main affection essays, incessantly chatter essays, intellectual essays, historical essays and documentary essays. Characteristics of each type are introduced and summarized. The representative works are analyzed into details to make overall grasp.In the second chapter, by closely reading of Zhang Wei’s essays and combining the relevant chapter, the writing features and structural characteristics can be generalized. This part involves four aspects:the dialogue and monologue of stylistic features, the intonation, the vocabulary of everyday and poetic words, the jagged and progressive grammatical features, by which can we find out the style of Zhang’s essays.The third chapter focuses on the spiritual orientation of Zhang’s essays. The first quarter maintains the lonely consciousness and the spirit of struggle of Zhang Wei thoughts. The second quarter is committed to explore the natural feelings in Zhang Wei’s essays and consciousness of the land. The third section focuses on the Zhang’s literature choose in the atmosphere of conflicts of the modern and tradition.The fourth chapter summarizes the personal traits of Zhang’s essays. They have diversity contexts and single-minded theme. What’s more, they are short in the sentences while full of affection. In addition, the paper places Zhang Wei’s essays on the vertical and horizontal clues of culture, found that Zhang’s spiritual connection with Lu Xun who is the representative of the spirit of the May Fourth New Culture Movement. Also Zhang’s thoughts are influenced by Qi culture of ancient China. In addition, Zhang’s minds have the same spiritual orientation with existential philosophy whose representatives are Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre.In the conclusion, the traits of Zhang Wei’s essays are further discussed in two aspects:Delivering and Dallying. Comparing Zhang Wei with Jia Pingwa, Han Shaogong who are all novelists while composing essays. On basis of that, summarizing the deficiency of Zhang Wei’s essays, and putting forwards the expectations of Zhang’s essays.