| The Tibetan writer A Lai's novel The Dust Has Fallen Off was a great success. A Lai described a strange magical world with a poet's pen, presenting a special poetic atmosphere. With a poet's feeling, he paid great attention to man's essence. While developing a successful but rough road in novels, he led us on a road toward man's essential and true stage, and in the novel he probed into a series of theses with universal significances, such as fool and wisdom, power and time, humanity and dignity. The development and deepening of these theses was concerned with his area and his poetic thoughts. The eternal artistic, philosophic, and religious significances were emphasized by the poetic taste of western culture in this remote place, a series of images and their symbolic meanings, the poetic narration , and the poetic tendency in this novel. |