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This book depicts the lives of people in a Northeastern village, exploring themes of poverty, disease, and death. It delves into the complexities of human nature, highlighting weaknesses, ignorance, and resistance. Through a vivid and detailed narrative, resembling a film script, the novel employs imagery, symbolism, and metaphors to provide a profound interpretation of the age-old quandaries of human nature and survival. It is a poetic tragedy, offering a rich and thought-provoking literary experience.
- AuthorXiao Hong
- PublisherThe Commercial Press
- Publication Date2015
"Selected Novels and Essays by Xiao Hong" is a collection of short stories and essays by Xiao Hong, a renowned modern Chinese female writer. The book includes famous short stories such as "The Call of the Wilderness," "Small Town in March," "Hand," "On the Ox Cart," and "Back Garden." The essays are divided into two parts, featuring selected works from the 1930s and additional works outside the collection. This book reflects Xiao Hong's personal experiences, including her tragic love, challenging life trajectory, and her unwavering spirit of struggle, resistance, and defiance against fate. It embodies her artistic pursuit of transforming the soul of the nation.
- AuthorXiao Hong
- PublisherThe Commercial Press
- Publication Date2014
"Selected Works of Xiao Hong's Novels and Essays" is a collection of famous Chinese modern female writer Xiao Hong's short stories and essays. The short stories include the famous works "The Call of the Wild", "March in a Small Town", "Hands", "On the Cart", and "The Back Garden". The essays are divided into two parts. The first part of the essays are selected from Xiao Hong's works published in the 1930s, including "Trek", "Shangshi Street", "Bridge", and "Memories of Mr. Lu Xun". The second part is a collection of works outside the collection. The book not only reflects Xiao Hong's personal tragic love, difficult and desolate life trajectory, but also contains her persistence in love, deep feelings and struggles with her mentors and friends, and her spirit of rebellion, resistance, and submission to fate. It embodies her artistic pursuit of "remolding the soul of the nation". 1. Classic works of famous writers. This book is a selection of Xiao Hong's famous works, which is a supplement to her epic novel "The Field of Life and Death" in another literary form, and has the same popular charm. 2. The content of this book is extensive. The selected short stories are excellent works, and the essays cover Xiao Hong's creations in various periods, with various materials. 3. The tragic love between the author Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, and the deep feelings between the mentor Lu Xun and his family have always been the focus of readers' attention in this collection of essays. * The revised edition adds three short stories "The Death of Wang's Wife", "Watching Kites", "Yellow River" and an essay "Abandoned Child".
- AuthorXiao Hong
- PublisherThe Commercial Press
- Publication Date2014
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