Selected Essays of Lu Xun

Author: Lu Xun
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Lu Xun is a great litterateur, thinker, and revolutionary in the history of China. His position in the history of modern Chinese literature is undeniable. Not only did he set his own flag in the creation of novels, essays, and prose poems, but he also achieved mastery in the creation of essays, leaving us a precious legacy of ideological and literary culture. The essay is a genre that has existed in Chinese literary history since ancient times and is discussed in the classical work of literary theory, The Art of Rhetoric. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the increasingly surging social, political, and ideological cultural revolutionary currents, the essay began to develop and ultimately became a sharp dagger and spear to attack enemies in the hands of Mr. Lu Xun. As a great thinker, Lu Xun's understanding and analysis of Chinese society in his essays still hold many thought-provoking insights even today. Many of Lu Xun's essays, when read superficially, appear to target specific people, events, and social phenomena in the society he lived in, but the ideas and spirit he expressed far transcend the real space. In this book, we have selected over one hundred essays by Mr. Lu Xun, fully showcasing his resilient character and distinct personality. Mr. Lu Xun once said that the "essays in his essays do not contain the mysteries of the universe or the truth of life," merely...