—— Xie Youshun, a famous literary critic and professor of Sun Yat-sen University.
Wang Weilian has become one of the hottest topics in the literary world. I have heard different people praise him on different occasions. His writing inherits the pioneer and reality, and his domineering imagination and exquisite expressive force make me believe that China literature, which has been languishing for twenty or thirty years, may be revived in the hands of the younger generation represented by him.
-Wei Wei, a famous writer and Lu Xun literature prize winner.
Reading Wang Weilian's novels, it is not difficult to find that his life is full of three dimensions, which are not limited to realism, broad social perspective, unique philosophical thinking on survival, and artistic exploration that is constantly trying to break through. This is the obvious difference between him and most writers born in the 1980s. He has conscious artistic pursuits, including sensitivity to life, delicate feelings about writing, cognition and understanding of novel creation, maturity and sincerity, simplicity and sophistication, closeness and profundity. In this extremely kitsch era and in the increasingly secularized cultural background, his exploration and thinking, as well as the aesthetic and ideological pursuit presented in his novels, are of great value to contemporary novel creation.
—— Zhang Yanmei, a famous critic and professor of Shandong University of Technology
Wang Weilian's writing not only pays attention to the exploration and innovation of the text, but also tirelessly inquires about the spiritual world of human beings. His novel The Saved embodies this aesthetic feature and is one of the important achievements of pure literature creation after 1980s.
-Tian Ying, editor-in-chief of Huacheng magazine
A group of cutting-edge writers, such as Wang Weilian, are devoted to pioneering experimental exploration, profound, keen and persistent, with excellent novel consciousness and unique narrative skills. Their literary exploration indicates the reform and innovation of contemporary literature.
-Professor Chen Zhongshan University Chinese Department.
Read Wang Weilian's novel The Saved Man, and you will be deeply shocked. Because Wang Weilian, a post-80s generation, has incomparable courage and enthusiasm, and is desperately trying to save him. He has gained a firm foothold in the most fundamental position of literature, so his writing can be on the top, and he searches for the green void, below, the yellow spring.
-"Post-70s" represents the writer Yi Zhou.
Wang Weilian's novels remain suspicious and exclusive of the known world, which makes his novels present a sense of alienation from the inside out and a tough aesthetic feeling. I firmly believe that he is a stubborn artist, not just a writer. He let love and pain, light and darkness, redemption and betrayal find their proper positions in the darkness, and we saw everything in the ruins.
-Zhang Chu, a representative writer of the post-1970s generation.
This can be regarded as the beginning of the maturity of western modernist novels in China.
-"Peking University Review" Liu Yong commented on Wang Weilian's novel "Illegal possession"
Among these young writers, Wang Weilian is a unique person. He has considerable philosophical accomplishment and received systematic social science training. In his novel creation, he has been trying to carry out radical ideological exploration and formal experiments on the level of modernity. His literary talent, critical thinking ability, the origin of his writing and his personal style can be seen in the modernist heretical works published in recent years, such as Illegal Possession, Legal Life, Lawlessness, Inside Face, Glowing Body, Man without Fingerprint and Crocodile Meat in Market Street.
-Li Denan, young critic and doctor of literature
Wang Weilian's novels are modest and complicated. It seems to me that he really knows what a novel is. In fact, Wang Weilian's literary road began with poetry, followed by comments, essays and novels. It is also the writing practice of various styles before that makes Wang Weilian's novels present concise poetry, critical rationality and delicate prose. While most writers are still struggling with "what to write" and "how to write" and can't see one thing clearly, he has perfectly unified them in his novel practice on the road of continuous exploration.
-Chen Jinsong, young critic, doctor of literature.
Starting from Kafka and Dostoevsky, a feature that often appears in modern novels is to write philosophy by writing novels, especially some non-academic and non-metaphysical existential philosophies. This is actually a microcosm of the whole modern art, that is, art is regarded as an alienated expression of philosophy. In Wang Weilian's two novels "Resignation" and "The Tin House", this trait is also faintly visible: on the surface, it is a story, but in fact it is talking about and presenting people's living conditions, approaching a philosophical thought.
-Wei Zhou, a scholar and well-known book critic
Wang Weilian is a young writer with a very distinct personality. No matter his imaginative plot setting or his cold, pure and sharp language expression, his novels have a strange and philosophical speculative color, which makes him have a "recognition" beyond his contemporaries. The "height" of cognition and the profundity of thought make his writing appear sophisticated and heavy. It can almost be said that such height and depth can't match his actual age-readers who don't know him are often surprised by this fact. Such precipitation and accumulation come from life, from reading, from talent, and more from his diligent thinking.
-Writer and critic Liu Fengyang