He sat alone on the sofa, in the silence of the room buried deep in the gold dust and sand, and the

This sentence is from Zhang Ailing's "The Golden Lock".

Written in 1943, the novel depicts the spiritual changes of Cao Qiqiao, a woman from a small merchant family. Qiqiao has been the wife of a disabled person, she wants to love but can't love, and has lived in Jiang's family for 30 years almost like a madman. Under the oppression of lust and lust, her personality was finally distorted, and her behavior became perverse, which not only destroyed her son's marriage, causing her daughter-in-law to be tortured to death, but also broke up her daughter's love.

For 30 years she wore a golden yoke. She used the heavy flail to slash a few people, and those who didn't die gave half their lives. "

In this book, Zhang Ailing expresses the basic meaning of gender psychology in modern society to an unprecedented and profound extent. She was not avant-garde in her time, but she shockingly lifted the veil of the warmth of the world between the sexes. The protagonist has been called the only one in her novel world by the author"Heroes", she has"The prudence and wit of a madman", in order to take revenge on the society that had hurt her, she used the most morbid way"Her flat, sharp throat was cut on all sides like razor blades", exerting lewd power as he pleases.

The author pushes modern Chinese psychoanalytic fiction to the extreme, subtly engraving the perverted psychology of the characters, and the sharp and vicious words produce a thrilling artistic effect. The Golden Lock also draws on the experience of old national novels in terms of narrative appearance, which clearly reflects that novel techniques such as Dream of Red Mansions have been used by the author to express the modern urban life of the Chinese and Western mixed places that she wants to express.

About author:Zhang Ailing (September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995).

Zhang Ailing's main works: essay collection "Rumors", prose novel collection "Zhang Kan", short and medium story collection "Legend", novels "Love in a Fallen City", "Half Life", "Love in the Red Land". In his later years, he engaged in the evaluation of Chinese literature and the study of Dream of the Red Chamber.

Hu Lancheng, "This Life and This World".

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