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The new edition of The Complete Works of Lu Xun has been increased from 16 to 18, with one volume of letters and one volume of diaries. Writing 10 volume, letters 4 volumes, diaries 3 volumes, index 1, the total number of words is about 7 million words. Compared with 198 1 version, the revision of the Complete Works of Lu Xun focuses on three aspects: adding lost letters; Textual collation of the original work; Addition and modification of comments.
★ Receipt: one copy of each letter and diary.
In this revision, there are 23 new lost articles, 20 lost letters, 68 original letters from Lu Xun to Xu Guangping, and 654.38+ 10,000 words of letters from Lu Xun and Masuda.
Qiu Shixiong, a member of the revised editorial board and director of Shaoxing Lu Xun Memorial Hall, said that among the 23 lost articles identified, the content involved the collation of ancient books, the introduction of foreign writers' works and mourning articles, and the genre included prose and poetry, which reflected the change of Lu Xun's literary creation path and the evolution of his thoughts. Among them, 19 12, 1 published the article "Painful words in the military field" which is particularly important. This paper exposes some bad behaviors of Guangfu Association in Shaoxing after the Revolution of 1911. At that time, it touched some people in the Guangfu Army. They checked against this article, and the military style changed.
Compared with articles that increase income, the letter increases the amount of income more. Among the 20 newly discovered lost letters, many were written by Lu Xun to celebrities and foreign friends such as Zhang, Cai Yuanpei, Soong Ching Ling, Hu Shi, Jiang, Yu Dafu and Shen. One of them is a letter written by Lu Xun to Soong Ching Ling and Cai Yuanpei in 1933, which is very precious. The contents of these letters cover a wide range, including cultural exchanges, academic discussions and life, reflecting Lu Xun's ideological activities and life experiences in various periods.
In the letters of increasing income, experts reached a consensus on two controversial issues, namely, the Original Book of Two Places written by Lu Xun to Xu Guangping and the letter jointly written by Lu Xun and Mao Dun to congratulate the Central Committee on the victory of the Red Army's eastward expedition.
In the Book of Two Places published by Guangqing Bookstore 1933, Lu Xun made many modifications to the original letter during the editing process, including abridging the contents and adding some words, while Lu Xun copied and saved all the original letters. But when The Complete Works of Lu Xun 198 1 was published, Lu Xun's original letter had not been published. In this revision, Lu Xun's original books and letters were compiled into a letter volume together with other letters of Lu Xun in chronological order, which not only preserved the integrity of the book as an independent version, but also enabled readers to get a glimpse of the whole picture of Lu Xun's original books and letters.
Lu Xun and Mao Dun jointly sent a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to congratulate the Red Army on its victory in the crusade. The full text is found in 1995. However, experts believe that this letter has no original basis and its writing style is completely different from that of Lu Xun. Moreover, it is impossible to prove that this letter has been reviewed by Lu Xun, and there are many uncertainties. However, it is true that Lu Xun and Mao Dun jointly wrote to the Central Committee. This letter is of great documentary significance. It was published before Lu Xun's death and should be reflected in the complete works. In the revised edition, this letter is included in the appendix of the letter volume as information that readers can easily find.
According to Wang Haibo, a member of the revised editorial board and director of the Modern Literature Editorial Office of People's Literature Publishing House, the new edition of The Complete Works of Lu Xun also deleted "To the North Russian National Choir" which was deemed not to belong to Lu Xun's letters.
★ Finishing: More than 1000 places have been modified.
According to preliminary statistics, more than 1000 proofreadings were made in this revision, which made the words of Lu Xun's works more accurate. For example, Zhang Mengyang, who is in charge of the revision of the second volume of the Complete Works, said that from Vanilla Garden to Morning Flowers, he wrote "I" and set up a bamboo screen to cover the birds according to the method taught by the father who moistened the soil. "Obviously, I saw them go in and took a look at the rope, but there was nothing. They have been urged to live for a long time, but only three or four. " The "urging work" here is the fault of "rushing", and a mistake is a mistake for decades. After Zhang Mengyang discovered this mistake, he did not revise it easily, but carefully consulted the original text published in the semi-monthly magazine Mangyuan 1926, and revised it after confirming that it was correct. Another example is the "big red flower and spotted red flower" in the "Good Story" of "Weeds", floating in the water, suddenly breaking and stretching, and the rouge water is constant, but it is not dizzy. "The continuous rouge water here should be continuous rouge water. When this article was published in Yusi Weekly, the word "Ru" was omitted. Lu Xun made a correction in the magazine that year, but he didn't change it when he received it. Collation like this seems to be a change of a word, but it needs a lot of rigorous and meticulous textual research to change the word.
★ Note: More objective, fair and scientific.
Lin Fei and Chen Shuyu, deputy directors of the editorial board, believe that the revision of the annotations of the Complete Works of Lu Xun has taken a big step forward, and the annotations with explanatory content, political and critical colors in the original annotations have been appropriately revised and abridged, with objectivity as the pursuit of new annotations. In this revision, the annotations are more objective, and they do not discuss or explain the meaning of Lu Xun's original text, nor comment on the object of annotations, but they respect history and cannot avoid the question of right and wrong. For example, the comments of crescent school, modern critics school, "the third kind of person" and related figures all deleted the evaluation and only introduced the situation objectively.
According to the annotation purpose of "providing relevant information and knowledge for readers with secondary education level and reference value for readers with high education level", more than 900 annotations were added in this revision, and the original annotation 1000 was significantly revised. The revision of Chinese and foreign characters alone reached more than 900 people.