英文摘要 |
"“Revealing illness to give rise to treatment”is an important idea in Lu Xun’s fictional writing. Lu’s penetrating awareness of problems, his criticism, and his use of classical themes and imagery are applicable to contemporary contexts, and they have therefore been continued or expanded upon by contemporary writers. This situation has resulted in the appearance of“back to Lu Xun”stories. In The Splendid Ashes, Sheng Keyi盛可以fabricated a disease and a town, and used both the treatment of intellectuals and the ghost town where people were deeply involved in chasing the dream of finding gold as metaphors for the sick politics of the P.R.C. Similarly, in his The Hospital Trilogy (The Hospital [2016], The Exorcism [2017], and The Spirit of the Dead [2018]), the science fiction writer Han Song韓松used a large number of discourses on, and images of, disease to create a future“medicinal age”and a universe where everyone is sick and diseases are everywhere. Through The Hospital Trilogy, his thoughts about China were in reality upgraded to a universal scale and vision. The sick universe created in the novel was actually a developed image of a“sick China”that embodied the spirit of“realism in science fiction.”The human body symbolized the body of the nation and the universe. The rich disease metaphors and medical treatment discourses detailed in the text appear to have had the intention of providing people with insight into their illnesses, and they further explored the possibility of healing. This article discusses the above literature from two aspects: the theme of sickness and treating the national character; and the relationship between medicine and literature as revealed in Lu Xun’s choice to abandon medicine for literature. I explain the meaning of these two aspects in the writings of Sheng Keyi and Han Song as they were extended to their contemporary contexts in order to explicate the reflections brought about by the phenomenon of“back to Lu Xun.”" |