Youjian Library: Erma
by Lao She
About This Novel
"Two Horses" is Lao She's early work, written in England in 1929. The novel creates a superstitious, moderate, sloppy, and lazy slave-like character, Lao Ma. His life creed is to live in peace, which is reminiscent of Lu Xun's Ah Q. The difference is that Ah Q lives in the countryside of old China, while Lao Ma is an overseas Chinese living abroad. Lao She deliberately put Lao Ma in a foreign situation to portray him. Through the life of Ma and his son in London and their interactions with the British, he looked at the differences between Eastern and Western nations, and tried to highlight the absurdity of backward national character in the context of the comparison of Chinese and Western cultures.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
