Selected Essays of Lu Xun

Author: Jin Yinming
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book is selected and compiled by experts from the Lu Xun Museum. To make this book one of the most accurate versions of Lu Xun's prose, the compilers used the "Complete Works of Lu Xun" edited by the Lu Xun Memorial Committee in 1938 and published by Shanghai Fusha as the base text. They conducted collation by referring to Lu Xun's existing manuscripts and other versions, choosing the best and adopting them.
The essay is a new literary form created by Lu Xun. This form absorbs the characteristics of the British essay (Essay), such as its brevity, sharpness hidden within, subtlety, and the ability to convey grand ideas in small details. It also draws inspiration from the style of Wei and Jin prose, which is "clear, detached, magnificent, and grand," especially inheriting the strength of Wei and Jin-era writings.
His essays and short comments are the backbone of Lu Xun's essays, focusing on argumentation and integrating the realm of poetry, imagery, and beautiful language. It is a fusion of poetry and political commentary, a crystallization of historical writing and poetic sentiment, an organic combination of logical and imaginative thinking, and a product of the unity of a warrior and a poet.