野草

Twenty-three prose poems and a foreword, written in a small Beijing study between 1924 and 1926. Dreams, graves, frozen fire and an autumn night under two jujube trees: this is Lu Xun at his most private and most modern. Some pieces remain hard to decode, which is part of their pull. The Open Stacks hold six of them.

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In the Open Stacks

• Autumn Night read in full here, with notes
• Snow read in full here, with notes
• A Good Story read in full here, with notes
• The Kite read in full here, with notes
• The Pressed Leaf read in full here, with notes
• Hope read in full here, with notes

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