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Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk (Hardcover)
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Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk (Hardcover)
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A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction
and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.
This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the
founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia's most
important thinkers at the turn of the twentieth century. Wild Grass
and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk represent a pinnacle of
achievement alongside Lu Xun's famed short stories. In Wild Grass,
a collection of twenty-three experimental pieces, surreal scenes
come alive through haunting language and vivid imagery. These are
landscapes populated by ghosts, talking animals, and sentient
plants, where a protagonist might come face-to-face with their own
corpse. By depicting the common struggle of real and imagined
creatures to survive in an inhospitable world, Lu Xun asks the
deceptively simple question, "What does it mean to be human?"
Alongside Wild Grass is Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, a memoir
in eight essays capturing the literary master's formative years and
featuring a motley cast of dislocated characters-children,
servants, outcasts, the dead and the dying. Giving voice to
vulnerable subjects and depicting their hopes and despair as they
negotiate an unforgiving existence, Morning Blossoms affirms the
value of all beings and elucidates a central predicament of the
human condition: feeling without a home in the world. Beautifully
translated and introduced by Eileen J. Cheng, these lyrical texts
blur the line between autobiography and literary fiction. Together
the two collections provide a new window into Lu Xun's mind and his
quest to find beauty and meaning in a cruel and unjust world.
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