A Man with a Broken Arm

A Man with a Broken Arm

by Mu Shiying

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18Kwords7chapters
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About This Novel

"The Man with a Broken Arm" was created in the early 1930s and is one of the representative works of Mu Shiying's early Proletarian literary style. The work focuses on the survival plight of workers at the bottom of society. Through the protagonist's experiences, it reveals the physical and mental destruction of individuals by capitalist industrialization at that time, as well as the oppression of vulnerable groups by the social structure. The protagonist in the article is a factory worker who has been engaged in high-intensity labor in a workshop with roaring machines for a long time. He has always had a fear of machines. After his body was mutilated, and the death of his youngest son, the double blow gave him the idea of ​​assassinating the factory director, but he finally gave up just before the action, and chose to face life again with "the first smile after the disaster" - individuals cannot change the social structure, but they can choose how to face suffering. This collection also includes "A Certain Lady" and "Night", both of which are excellent works.

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