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Zusatztext "Lu Xun is not just a great writer. He is an essential writer—the kind whose works provide the clues an outsider needs to unlock the cultural code of a nation! and whose work becomes embedded in a nation's DNA. . . . This affordable volume comprises . . . his complete fiction. Julia Lovell's are arguably the most accessible translations yet. . . . Together! they give Lu Xun his best shot to date of achieving renown beyond the Chinese world. If it succeeds in this! the book could be considered the most significant Penguin Classic ever published." — Time "Julia Lovell and Penguin have done Chinese modern literature a great service in bringing this passionate! witty and bleakly nostalgic work to what one hopes will be a wider audience. Lovell's introduction is excellent." — The Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Julia Lovell is the translator of The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun , and is the author of Maoism , for which she won the 2019 Cundhill History Prize, and The Opium War , for which she won the Jan Michalski Prize. She is Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London, and writes about China for The Guardian , Financial Times , The New York Times , and The Wall Street Journal . She lives in Cambridge. Yiyun Li is the author of three novels, Where Reasons End, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude , and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life . She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta' s 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker , Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University. Klappentext Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li. Zusammenfassung Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This book presents translations of Lu Xun's stories, including "The Real Story of Ah-Q', "Diary of a Madman", "A Comedy of Ducks", "The Divorce" and "A Public Example", among others....
