How is Action Possible: an Ideological Thread in Lu Xun's Literature

About This Novel

Lu Xun is the cornerstone and pinnacle of modern Chinese literature, and the ideas behind his literature also have cornerstone and pinnacle significance. But no matter which one is more important, his thought or his literature, for readers, the unavoidable entanglement is that Lu Xun's thoughts are often expressed in specific literary forms, and Lu Xun's literature is often rooted in specific logical constants in his thoughts. Therefore, how to reach the secret of Lu Xun's thought through the literary form created by Lu Xun has become a very important topic. This book focuses on this, carefully combing through the relationship between literary forms and ideas in various texts left by Lu Xun, and exploring an important ideological context of Lu Xun's literature, that is, in modern China, faced with the changes and turmoil brought about by the intersection between ancient and modern China and the West, how is action possible? This book first discusses the basic aspects of Lu Xun's thoughts during his stay in Japan, outlines the relationship with Zhang Taiyan's "self-nature", and demonstrates Lu Xun's understanding and desire for action at the ideological level. It then discusses the subject construction issues related to "self-nature" in "Weeds", "New Stories" and old-style poems, focusing on analyzing the relationship between thought and literature, and developing Lu Xun's reconstruction. Ideological dilemmas, historical philosophy and self-comfort when action is possible, and finally, in the context of literary analysis, we discuss some of Lu Xun's novels in the novel collections such as "The Scream" and "Wandering", start a close reading of the novels in a specific historical context, clarify Lu Xun's understanding of the Revolution of 1911, and discuss his thinking on how action is possible from the perspective of historical practice and the characteristics of the corresponding literary form. In short, this book attempts to trace the basic ideological thread behind Lu Xun's literature based on the basic question of "how is action possible", with a view to triggering different discussions on Lu Xun and modern Chinese thought and literature.

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