张承志:审美英雄诗

Zhang Cheng-zhi: Aesthetic Heroic Verse

张承志在他有着浓郁少数民族风情和虔诚的宗教意味的文本中,瞬间之美、异端之美和牺牲之美在命定的悲剧中被着力地渲染和推崇,他以其稍纵即逝的瞬间之美抗拒着我们的愚钝警醒着我们的麻木,以其激烈的异端之美拒斥着现世的庸常和污浊,以其激昂的牺牲之美抗拒着时代的冷漠和生存的盲目与苟活。这无疑构成了一种精神召唤,一种文化抵抗,使之成为八九十年代启蒙话语中的一面美的旗帜。

In his texts of distinctive national minority colorings and pious religion, Zhang Cheng-zhi has tried to highlight and exalt the beauty of the instantaneous, of the unorthodox and of sacrifice in the doomed tragedy. In a word, Zhang has attempted to defy our stupidity and to awaken us from apathy through the transient instantaneous beauty, repelling the mediocrity and filth of modern society by means of his vehement unorthodox beauty as well as resisting the epochal indifference and the blindness and degradation of existence by virtue of his impetuous beauty of sacrifice. All this has undeniably constituted a spiritual call and a cultural resistance, thereby having become a banner of aesthetics in the enlightenment discourse of the 1980s-1990s.