The Complete Works of Lu Xun's Classics (ten Volumes)

The Complete Works of Lu Xun's Classics (ten Volumes)

by Lu Xun

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Lu Xun (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936), a famous writer, thinker, educator, democratic activist, important participant in the May Fourth New Culture Movement, and the founder of modern Chinese literature. Comrade Lu Xun is known as "the main general of China's cultural revolution. Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation. This series of books is "The Complete Works of Lu Xun's Classics", which has ten volumes in total, including The True Story of Ah Q, Gathering Flowers at Dusk, New Stories, Hometown, Kong Yiji, Diary of a Madman, Scream, Wandering, Weeds, and Blessings. "The True Story of Ah Q" was created in At the end of 1921, it was set in the Chinese countryside before and after the Revolution of 1911. It describes the story of Ah Q, a wandering farmhand in Weizhuang, who, although he is "really capable" of work, has nothing and even his name has been forgotten. The novel criticizes the feudal, conservative, vulgar, corrupt and other social characteristics of Chinese society at that time, and effectively reveals the old Chinese people. The life scenes of the people and their morbidity in dire straits. As a "Memory of Memories", "Morning Blossoms Picked Up at Dusk" reflects the author Lu Xun's life in his youth in many aspects, vividly reflecting the formation of his character and interests. The first seven chapters reflect his childhood life in his family and private school in Shaoxing, and the last three chapters describe his life in Shaoxing. The experience of traveling from his hometown to Nanjing, then studying in Japan, and then returning to China to teach reveals all the ugly and irrational phenomena in semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. It also reflects the difficult journey of aspiring young intellectuals to brave hardships and seek light in the dark night of old China. It also expresses the author's nostalgia for his former relatives, friends and teachers. "New Collection" is a collection of short stories written by Mr. Lu Xun based on ancient myths and historical legends. It is Lu Xun's last innovative work. Five of the eight stories were written in the last period of Lu Xun's life. Facing the threat of death, he was in internal and external difficulties, and suffered from physical and mental exhaustion. However, the overall style of "New Collection" shows an unprecedented calmness and fullness. Lu Xun himself believes that this is a collection of myths, legends and historical facts. "Hometown" takes "my" return to my hometown as a clue, and follows the plot arrangement of "returning to my hometown" - "in my hometown" and "leaving my hometown", and focuses on describing the characters of Runtu and Yang Ersao based on what "I" saw, heard, remembered and felt. , Thus reflecting the reality of rural bankruptcy and the miserable life of farmers before and after the Revolution of 1911; at the same time, it profoundly pointed out that due to the influence of the traditional concepts of feudal society, the spiritual constraints of the working people caused the distortion of innocent human nature, resulting in indifference and alienation between people, expressing the author's strong dissatisfaction with reality and his desire to transform the old society and transform the old society. "Kong Yiji" is Lu Xun's second vernacular novel after "Diary of a Madman" on the eve of the May 4th Movement. The novel describes that Kong Yiji was poisoned by the decadent feudal ideology and the imperial examination system. He was mentally pedantic and insensitive, and lived in poverty and poverty. He finally spent his days in people's ridicule. The tragic image of being swallowed up by the feudal landlord class is not long, but it profoundly reveals the poisoning of the spirit of intellectuals by the imperial examination system at that time and the "cannibalistic" nature of the feudal system. "Diary of a Madman" is the first short vernacular diary novel written by Lu Xun, and it is also China's first modern vernacular novel. , The novel reveals the "cannibalistic" nature of feudal ethics through the image of the persecuted "madman" and the self-narrative description of the "madman", and expresses the author's resistance to China's feudal culture with feudal ethics as the main connotation; it also shows the author's profound sense of repentance towards Chinese culture from a thorough "revolutionary democratic" standpoint. It carries out profound reflections and expresses profound worries and indignation about the future of China and even mankind. "The Scream" truly depicts social life from the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement. Starting from revolutionary democracy, with the purpose of enlightenment and the spirit of humanitarianism, it reveals various deep-seated social contradictions and the influence of the old Chinese system. "The Scream" is the beginning and maturity of modern Chinese novels, and it is the first of modern realist literature to express the author's thorough and uncompromising reflection. The spirit of feudalism is a mirror of China's revolutionary thought. The works mainly cover peasants and intellectuals. The whole collection of novels is full of concern for the misfortunes of peasants and intellectuals who live under the pressure of feudal forces. The novels narrate the fate of the characters in a profound and broad historical picture. "Weeds" is a collection of poems that truly describes the author's thoughts and feelings as he continued to fight after the New Culture United Front was divided, but felt lonely and lonely, and explored progress in hesitation. The collection of poems has diverse content, rich imagination, strange conception, language and imagery, rich lyricism and musicality, and successful use of symbolic techniques, with strong artistic expression. Infectious. The collection of poems is in the form of monologue lyrical prose, with poetic imagination and sublimation, which deepens the art and ideological conception of Chinese prose poetry. The work tells the story of an intellectual who left his hometown and stayed at the home of his fourth uncle (Master Lu Si) after returning to his hometown at the end of the lunar calendar to prepare for a "blessing". The tragedy of Sister Lin's death. "Blessing" shows the author's sympathy for oppressed women and his ruthless exposure of feudal ideology and ethics by describing the tragic life of Sister Xiang. It also illustrates the indifference and confusion of enlightened intellectuals like "I" in the article to the selfishness and harshness of the world at that time.

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