Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.4, 2018 

 

Innocent Poet and Lonely Dreamer in the Age of Materialism: A Preliminary Comment on Zhang Wei

(Abstract)

 

Zhao Yuebin

 

Zhang Wei’s literary career has been lasting for nearly half a century. He has created an idiosyncratic and thought-provoking “I” throughout thousands of words that speak straightforwardly to his time. A sophisticated world in which heaven, earth, human and spirits were connected and history collided with reality has been mapped out for his endurance and will like a Saint. He is an innocent poet. “Poetry” is not only the goal he is longing for, but also the base of all his literary creations, and the driving force of his self-confidence and accomplishment of“the great .”For him, writing is a long process of speaking and the communication between his soul and the world. He found a Chinese way of survival, which also revealed how retreat is defense and defense is offense. Like a lonely dreamer returning from the real world to the hidden world, Zhang Wei is going to poetry out of the shadow of non-poetry and found his own “god” in the background of “blasphemy.”