Prose refers to a literary style on an equal footing with poetry, novels and plays. It is characterized by expressing the author's views and feelings and revealing its social significance through the description of some fragments or life events in real life. It can be processed and created on the basis of real people and events.
It doesn't necessarily have a complete story and characters, but focuses on expressing the author's feelings about life, with flexible material selection and strong lyricism. "I" in prose is usually the author himself.
Language is not limited by rhythm, and its forms of expression are diverse. It can be combined with narration, discussion, lyricism and description, or it can be emphasized. According to the needs of content and theme, we can create a certain artistic conception by vividly depicting typical details such as life fragments, psychology, environment and atmosphere. Such as in novels, and use artistic techniques, such as symbols in poetry.
Prose has many forms, such as essays, short comments, sketches, close-ups, travel notes, newsletters, letters, diaries, memoirs and so on. In a word, prose is short in length, free in form, widely used, flexible in writing and beautiful in language, which can reflect life more quickly.
And many essays are bound together to form a collection of essays.
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Representative works of prose collection:
1, Ji Xianlin's Prose Collection
The writer is Ji Xianlin. This book contains Mr. Ji Xianlin's articles on life, scholarship and social life, from which we can get a glimpse of the attitude of the master of Chinese studies, the old man's life sentiment, the pursuit of the meaning and value of life, fate and destiny, life and society, tolerance, success, contentment, friends, reputation, pressure, longevity, ethics and so on.
It is a masterpiece created by Ji Xianlin, an academic master, combining his life experience of more than 90 years and his understanding of life and the world.
2. Lu Xun's prose collection
The author is Lu Xun. This book contains 59 essays on Lu Xun's life, such as "Flowers in the Morning" and all his poems.
3. The three of us
The Three of us is a collection of essays by contemporary writer Jiang Yang, which was first published in July 2003.
The book tells a simple and warm family, which has been unknown for decades, helped each other, got together and lost each other. In simple and heavy language, the author Jiang Yang recalled his daughter Qian Yuan, her husband Qian Zhongshu and the happy and difficult days, love and pain of leaving her family of three.