What is Lu Xun's literary style?

Lu Xun's writing style and characteristics

I. Novel writing style

Lu Xun's novels have a unique selection of materials, in the selection of themes, Lu Xun's classical literature only selected "brave generals, warriors, thieves, stolen goods, monsters, gods and goddesses, beautiful and talented people, and later on prostitutes, johns and rogues" model of reform. The reform was made to "for the life" of the Enlightenment-style creative purpose, the creation of the "performance of the peasants and intellectuals," the two main themes of modern literature.

Second, the writing style of miscellaneous writings

Lu Xun devoted most of his life and efforts to the creation of miscellaneous writings in his life, especially in the later years when his thoughts were most mature. His essays were very critical, and Lu Xun once divided them into "social criticism" and "civilization criticism", which emphasized the connotation and function of "criticism" in his essays.

Three, prose writing style

Lu Xun did not create many prose, but it can be said that each piece of fine, these chapters are included in the "Morning Flower and Evening Gleanings" and "Weeds". The book is a retrospective of Lu Xun's childhood and adolescence.

It is a reminiscence of the author's adolescent life, including his impression of Shaoxing as a teenager, studying in Nanjing, studying in Japan, and teaching in Shaoxing after his return to China, and other basic growing experiences, especially those who recounted his hometown life the most. Compared with his essays, these articles are more bright, innocent and friendly flavor.

Expanded Information

Character Influence

1, Academic Influence

As an academic researcher, on the one hand, Lu Xun used Western literary concepts to study the classical Chinese novels and wrote A Brief History of the Chinese Novel, which not only ended the era of the "Chinese novels without a history", but also brought an end to the "Chinese novels without a history". On the one hand, as an academic researcher, Lu Xun used the western concept of literature to study the Chinese classical novels and wrote "A Brief History of the Chinese Novel", which not only put an end to the era of "Chinese novels since the beginning of time", but also created a typical example of a literary history work, "opening countless doors of the law for the future students".

On the other hand, he collated and proofread and corrected dozens of ancient books such as Ancient Novels, Jikang Collection, Han Portrait Collection, and Huiji County Old Book Collection, which left a great wealth for the study of classics for the future generations.

2. Spiritual Influence

Lu Xun can be called the national soul of modern China, and his spirit has profoundly influenced his readers and researchers, as well as modern Chinese writers and modern intellectuals from generation to generation. Lu Xun is also one of the world's cultural giants of the 20th century.

He created the literature of the "present-day Chinese who want to participate in the world's endeavors" with a unique personal style, "both inside and outside, in harmony with the world's zeitgeist, but without destroying China's national character". Like the world's leading thinkers and writers of the same period, he paid attention to the problems facing mankind while focusing on his own people, and made his own unique contributions.

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