Desolation - Of Zhang Ailing Aesthetic Set

Literary works have their long-standing vitality for their consistent artful glamour. Zhang Ailing, who came into the arena of literature in the 1940's,is a charismatic woman. The legendary stories woven by her once made generations of people intoxicating. Her novels, though not predominantly popular, did not prevent her from winning the popularity among the readers whether in terms of time or place. This article is focused on the analysis of Zhang Ailing's novels' "sombre" meaning form the source of the aesthetic tendency,the demonstrative, forms of the aesthetic tendency. Creative mentality is the cause of Zhang Ailing's novels' "sombre" meaning. "Sombre" literary world stems from her "sombre" spiritural world. The formation of her tragic consciousness is the result of her disillusionment about her family and times. Zhang Ailing's peculiar fictional world is made by her peculiar contents, having its peculiar displaying perspectives. She highlights the sombriety of life, considering family, sex and marriage to be the three basic relations in reflecting human life. Zhang Ailing's novels display her mature writing skills, which combined with the contents, not only forms her novels' artful characteristics, but also reinforces the "sombre" meaning. They are represented as follows: ingenious language, high-density image and interactive contrasts. In the Chinese literary history' of the first half of 215' century, Zhang Ailing' was a peculiar literary character, who informed the people of her unignorable presence by means of her literary works.