The Consciousness of Essays: the "second Birth" of Lu Xun's Literature (1924-1927)

About This Novel

This book is the first volume of Zhang Xudong's "Lu Xun Trilogy", analyzing how Lu Xun's literature "became himself" from 1924 to 1927, marked by "essay consciousness". The author shows that the unprecedented external challenges and internal pressures faced by Lu Xun's literature during this period brought about a series of profound and irreversible choices, decisions and mutations in the history of style and literary principles. Through an overall critical approach that combines auteur theory, textual analysis, and theoretical interpretation, this book explores the syntactic and phenomenological structure of Lu Xun's essays with stylistic mixture and the political ontology of writing as the core. The conclusion is: it is necessary to analyze and grasp the essay, a stylistic experiment and style movement that is higher than the "pure literature" establishment and its ideology, in the context of the history and axiology of new literature and modern world literature, and at the level of the philosophical proposition of "the end of art." This "intermediate breakthrough" in the internal interpretation of Lu Xun's literature opens up historical depth in the second volume's "critical philology" investigation of Lu Xun's writings in the "Shanghai Period" (1927-1936), and presents a broader social and political vision and a more complex critical narrative relationship between reality and its appearance under the title of "The Freedom of Essays". Lu Xun's short stories, prose poems and autonarrative creations will be specially analyzed in the third volume "Enlightenment and the Plastic Art of New Literature". Each volume of the "trilogy" unfolds along six interlocking propositions: the primacy of literature in the study of Lu Xun; the primacy of essays in Lu Xun's literature; the modernism and nature of world literature in Lu Xun's literature; the biological determinism and temporal structure of Lu Xun's literature; the political ontology of Lu Xun's literature; and the "consistency of writing and translation" characteristics of Lu Xun's literature.

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