Selection of Modern Foreign Works - (Volume A) (Late Symbolism Expressionism)

Author: Yuan Kejia
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book primarily selects modernist works from Western capitalist countries. While some modernist works from Latin America and the East are also included, they are essentially echoes of the former. Therefore, this article focuses on Western modernism, and readers can draw their own conclusions. The modernist sub-genres, writers, and works mentioned in this article are discussed in detail or translated in the book, so there is no need for further elaboration here. Instead, it provides a general overview of the emergence and development of modernist literature, its ideological and artistic characteristics, its social background and intellectual roots, its social significance and artistic value, as well as the attitude we should adopt toward it, for the reference of readers. The book mainly translates the later Symbolist and Expressionist works from Western capitalist countries, translated by renowned experts such as Ai Qing, Guo Moruo, and Yuan Kejia. It includes works by writers like Verhaeren, Valéry, Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka, focusing on the characteristics of the later Symbolist and Expressionist schools. Each translation is preceded by a brief biography of the author, providing readers with better understanding of foreign modernist works.