Lü Xun's collected essays

Author: Lu Xun
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This is an anthology of Lu Xun's essays compiled for extracurricular reading by middle school students. Lu Xun himself had mixed views on literary anthologies. He acknowledged their strengths, noting that "they often become more popular and effective than the complete works of the selected authors or the compilers' own collections." However, he also believed that anthologies were filtered through the compiler's lens, "narrowing the perspective of the selected works," and that compilers "sometimes add criticism, highlighting what they agree with while suppressing what they disagree with." Therefore, to fully understand Lu Xun himself, it is better to read his complete works rather than rely on anthologies.