Writer Zhang Jie said goodbye to this! She is remembered by the world along with words

Just now, the circle of friends was shocked by a message transferred from the Chinese Writers Network: "The famous writer Zhang Jie died of illness in the United States on January 21, 2022. Born in Beijing in 1937, Zhang Jie is an important representative writer of Chinese new period literature, and her works such as "Love Cannot Be Forgotten" and "The Person Who Hurt Me the Most In the World Has Gone" have had a great influence on readers. Zhang Jie won the second Mao Dun Literature Award for her novel "Heavy Wings" written in 1981. In 2004, she won the Mao Dun Literature Award again for "No Words", becoming the first and current writer to win the Mao Dun Literature Award twice.

In "Love, It Cannot Be Forgotten", Zhang Jie describes the pain of love without marriage and the misfortune of marriage without love, sharply revealing the deprivation of human nature and human freedom by social reality and traditional concepts, and the spiritual dilemma of people in the context of this bondage and deprivation. The novel also explores human emotions, especially the female mind, in the broad context of social changes in the Chinese era, and explains and expresses female consciousness earlier among contemporary writers. In the long essay "The Person Who Hurt Me the Most In the World Has Gone", Zhang Jie's nostalgia for her deceased mother has made generations of readers feel empathy, and the tenderness, emotion, fragility and heartbreak in her words let us see ourselves when our loved ones left.

In her later years, Zhang Jie lived abroad most of the time and spent a lot of time painting. In a self-description written for the exhibition, Zhang Jie explained her experience of learning to paint: "Because of a casual suggestion from a doctor, I began to paint in 2006. Like writing a novel, it is also self-talk (painting), never learned, for the first time I don't even know how to get a paintbrush, only a cavity of love. Zhang Jie said that she has a twist of the strands, to identify, like the things, a road to the black, "I don't know how many so-called paintings were torn, in order to come up with such a little thing to hand over."

In October 2014, at the age of 77, Zhang Jie held her solo oil painting exhibition at the Museum of Modern Literature in Beijing. This was her first oil painting exhibition in Beijing, but she said it was her "farewell performance" – "Zhang Jie said goodbye!" ”

(Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Yisheng)