Passenger in the Dark Night: An Unheard-of Lu Xun

Author: Wu Jun
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book takes Lu Xun's personality psychology as its research subject, with a particular focus on analyzing those personality and psychological traits that have long been overlooked or even regarded as negative and dark. The main aspects include Lu Xun's sense of guilt, nihilistic mindset, psychological conflicts between self-abuse and aggression, love psychology, as well as the disease and death awareness in his later years. These reflections highlight the author's unique academic perspective. Just as only in darkness can light be more vividly seen, only by meticulously examining the subtle factors in Lu Xun's inner world can we gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of his entire personality and spirit. The core of Wu Jun's book is to reveal the various sacrifices Lu Xun made in terms of his personality—Qian Guifen considers this book as the last testament of his youth. I still hold this view today: it is a youth-oriented book written for young people by a young writer. Of course, it is a book about Lu Xun. The traveler walking alone in the setting sun seeks a distant destination beyond tombs and wildflowers. Although this destination is infinitely far, the traveler's only choice remains to move forward without turning back. Here, the illusion or emptiness of the distant destination is no longer the key; rather, the thought, will, and actions of perceiving and penetrating this illusion or emptiness become the theme of The Traveler. At the same time, precisely because the destination is infinitely far, it will be unspeakable—impossible to articulate in words. Unsayableness here breaks free from the cage of linguistic limitations. The traveler moving toward this infinitely far destination actually carries the mission of our inner hopes. Thus, we see a Lu Xun who is full of light, warmth, and joy in his heart—a figure of hope. —Wu Jun This book takes Lu Xun's personality psychology as its research subject, focusing on his sense of guilt, nihilistic mindset, psychological conflicts between self-abuse and aggression, love psychology, as well as the disease and death awareness in his later years, reflecting the author's unique academic perspective.