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Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk

By (author) Xun Lu, Translated by Eileen J. Cheng, Edited by Theodore Huters

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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 Asiaâ€™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 Xunâ€™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, â€œWhat does it mean to be human?â€ Alongside Wild Grass is Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, a memoir in eight essays capturing the literary masterâ€™s formative years and featuring a motley cast of dislocated charactersâ€”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 Xunâ€™s mind and his quest to find beauty and meaning in a cruel and unjust world.