Zheng Zhenduo opens "Outline of Literature" with great momentum: he takes you back to the dawn of human civilization, spanning Greek epics and Eastern classics, and brings the vast panorama of world literature before your eyes.
"Literature Outline" was first written in 1923 and serialized in "Novel Monthly" since 1924. It was compiled into a book in 1927 and is divided into four volumes and about 800,000 words. It is a true overview of the history of world literature. The book has a total of 46 chapters, ranging from the budding of human civilization to the development of China's new literature movement in the early 20th century. It covers at least poetry, prose, novels, drama, and literary theory, and also spans many fields such as history, ancient book studies, philology, and painting art.
This book not only outlines the important writers and classics in the history of world literature, but also aims to break the "Eurocentrism" and allow readers to appreciate every literary flower with a broader mind - no matter where and when it blooms.
It is an outline document with both general knowledge and depth. It can be used as a reference book and can also be read as "a literary tour around the world". Reading it is like standing on the commanding heights of literary history, overlooking the extended paths of thoughts and souls in time and space.
