"Life is a gorgeous robe full of lice", which book did Zhang Ailing write?

This sentence comes from the China modern female writer Zhang Ailing 18-year-old essay Dream of Genius, which is regarded as the "first work" in her literary career. This article is an award-winning article written by Zhang Ailing for Shanghai West Wind magazine when she was a freshman at Hong Kong University. The original version of Dream of Genius was published by Shanghai Xifeng Publishing House, 194 1.

The original text is as follows:

There is a part of the art of life that I can't appreciate. I know how to watch Clouds in July, listen to Scottish soldiers playing bagpipes, enjoy rattan chairs in the breeze, eat salted peanuts, enjoy neon lights on rainy nights, and reach out from the double-decker bus to pick the green leaves at the top of the tree.

When no one handed over, I was full of joy in life. But I can't overcome this little distress for a day. Life is a gorgeous robe full of fleas.

Extended data

Zhang Ailing is a charming writer in the history of modern literature in China. Her life's creation involves novels, essays and script reviews, among which novels are the most successful. Zhang Ailing's novels are beyond her time. Her novels, in terms of material selection, conception, characterization, narrative structure, language skills and so on, all show personal characteristics and have made outstanding achievements.

Her novels, whether beyond elegance and vulgarity or in-depth description of marginalized little people, are unmatched by any other writer in the 1940s. Therefore, her novels can not be attributed to any novel genre, but a unique existence, which has made a unique contribution in the history of China's novels.

Zhang Ailing contributed a number of literary masterpieces and created a new height of realistic novels, which has coordinate value in the history of China's novels. His novel achievements are mainly manifested in the following aspects:

First of all, it broadens the new horizon of female criticism and the new world of female literature.

Second, it created a new climax of realistic novels.

Third, it has formed a distinctive artistic style.

Fourthly, his unique contribution in the history of China literature.

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