Selected Works of Lu Xun. Volume of Criticism: Illustrated Annotated Edition

Author: Lu Xun
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Lu Xun Selected Works. Classic works that are enjoyable to read a hundred times, with poetic modern interpretations. If you ask who has been the most great and who has best represented this era since the New Literature Movement in China, I would answer without hesitation: Lu Xun. When we see the part, he sees the whole. When we are eager to grasp the reality, he has already grasped the past, present, and future. To understand the comprehensive national spirit of China, there is no shortcut other than reading The Complete Works of Lu Xun—Yu Dafu.
Who is Lu Xun? Politicians call him a "flag bearer" for his "cold defiance of a thousand critics"; scholars revere him as a "spiritual leader" for his "never forgiving" attitude; thinkers consider him a "great night watchman" for "awakening the sleeping people in the house," but his wife, Xu Guangping, called him a "little white elephant." Lin Xianzhi believes that over the years, Lu Xun has become a symbol with different colors. Determined to bring Lu Xun back to the human world from the empire of symbols through reviewing The Selected Works of Lu Xun, Lin Xianzhi writes: "To understand the Chinese people and the comprehensive national spirit of China, there is no shortcut other than reading Lu Xun's works."
The first thing you see is this line on the bookmark, which moves one's heart. In fact, there have been quite a few selected works of Lu Xun published in recent years. This time, Hunan Literature and Art Press has published five books, including Lu Xun's novels, essays,, prose, and prefaces and letters. The features of this set are first the illustrations and second the reviews by Lin Xianzhi. Most of the illustrations are woodcuts, simple yet profound, along with photographs and autographs of early versions of Lu Xun's works. And Lin Xianzhi's reviews are, of course, a modern interpretation of the classics. Sometimes his words are sharp and witty, making the reading experience both enjoyable and invigorating. This is perhaps one of the reasons why we still want to read Lu Xun and find new insights every time we read him.