The Endless Bleak Story

Zhang Ai-ling is a writer with great sense of tragedy, her life is full of tragic experiences and she puts the tragic vision into her novels. The combination between her tragic experiences of real life and the bleak mood has endowed a unique aesthetic feeling to her novels------ tragic beauty conveyed by the dense bleak mood.Zhang Ai-ling's tragic experiences of family's decline, lack of the love and natural affection and disillusion of spirit home has formed her tragic dispositions and made her consciously explain everything in the view of"desolation". Desolation as basis of her life has become her pursuit of aesthetic judgment in literary creation. In her opinion, desolation is a unique tragic experience. She has digested many foreign philosophy thoughts, literary theory and literary trends, and created a unique aesthetics with personal charm. In her novels, Zhang Ai-ling makes her novel carry an atmosphere of the dense bleak mood. The interpretation to the dense bleak mood has always become her basis of literary creation and an untiring pursuit, whether in terms of interpretation to the material of love and marriage and character portrayal or writing skill's use of language style, image design and narrative perspective.This paper, based on the word"desolation", traces back to the deep tragic experiences of her real life, discusses the formation and appearance of her aesthetic judgment pursuit in several perspectives, and finally analyzes deeply the dense bleak mood in her novels and concludes the eternal charm of"desolation beauty"in her novels.Zhang Ai-ling's "desolation" is not only of her personal charm, also has an important significance in literature history. Her classic interpretations to "desolation" not only arouse spiritual sympathy to several her contemporary writers, also produce greater influence on a large number of the writer's literary creation. They are in the creation style close to her and tend to be desolated, and due to her charm and influence she even is regarded as the descendant of Zhang School. Her unique desolation and experienced story to have witnessed great vicissitudes is still the model for those young writers to follow in the impetuous society with a flood of material desires.