Zhou Zuoren's Self-edited Collection: Characters in Lu Xun's Novels
by Zhou Zuoren
About This Novel
Zhou Zuoren, the second brother of Lu Xun, is an encyclopedic figure in the history of modern Chinese literature and one of the people who knows Lu Xun best. The title of "Characters in Lu Xun's Novels" seems to be a collection of reviews that explores the art of Lu Xun's novels, but it is actually the same as "Lu Xun's Hometown". The focus is still on "writing about the garden and its surroundings" and "writing about the characters, time and place in the two novels", that is, "describing without pretense". The novels discussed in the book are limited to "The Scream" and "Wandering", plus "Morning Blossoms Picked Up at Dusk", which is classified as a collection of essays. The various characters who appear in it are archetypal indexed and their background deeds are verified, but they will never fall into Dong Heng's positivist school. On the surface, it is an index for textual research, but in reality it focuses on illuminating customs, introducing interesting local dialects, and focusing on the artistic issues of the novel such as the relationship between poetry and reality. It occasionally makes brief comments on one or two places, with insightful insights, and can often reveal the best features of Lu Xun's novels that others have not seen in one sentence.
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