野草 Wild Grass (English-Chinese Edition)

魯迅 Lu Xun/Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang (translated)
ISBN: 978-962-996-124-4
Chinese University Press
128 pag. paperback 14 x 21 cm (Traditional Characters)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted significant and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain as powerful today as when first written. Echoes of these stories are audible in fiction from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Like many Chinese intellectuals searching for a solution to China's problems, Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine, which he later abandoned for a career in writing. As a writer he hoped to be a far more effective weapon in the effort to save China. A prolific author of pungent and "dagger-like" essays, Lu Xun was also a tireless translator of Western critical and literary works. "Wild Grass" is a collection of twenty-three prose poems written between 1924 and 1926.

魯迅（1881–1936），本名周樹人，浙江紹興人，二十世紀中國文學巨人。早歲留日習醫，後棄醫從文。1918年的《狂人日記》為新文學運動第一篇白話小說；其後以「匕首」般雜文介入生活、干預現實，小說創作因而中輟，但兩部小說集《吶喊》、《彷徨》影響深遠，在二十世紀末海峽兩岸文壇，依舊迴響不斷。小說之外，魯迅的抒情散文《野草》也是新文學發展道路一大里程碑，不少論者更視之為新文學史上第一本「散文詩」。