Recommendation | Following Lu Xun's text, the post-90s illustrators adapted "Cast Sword" into an image novel

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"Cast Sword" is a representative of Lu Xun's historical novels, based on Gan Bao's "Tomb of the Three Kings" in "Search for God". Recently, the post-90s illustrator and picture book writer Xi Jiu used more than 100 paintings and arranged these paintings into a magnificent long poem to give shape to this old classic.

This legend is included in ancient books, and the original version is only a few hundred words. The story focuses on the sacrifice of the characters, giving the two chivalrous romantic sadness. In most versions of ancient texts, the characters in the story don't even have names. In the novel "Cast Sword", Lu Xun named the legendary characters and shaped their personalities - the ruler between the eyebrows is weak and kind, and always lacks the determination of chivalry; and the black-clad Yan Zhi Ao (and Lu Xun once used "Yan Zhi Ao" as a pen name) is mysterious, like a ghost suddenly appearing from a dim place. The two seemed to have walked out of ancient books and had a living life. Qian Liqun, a professor at Peking University, said: "Lu Xun fully poetized the spirit of revenge with his strange and brilliant brushstrokes. This ruthless sword of revenge is not only the spiritual symbol of the protagonist of the novel, the 'Black Man', the Ao of the Feast, but also the embodiment of Lu Xun's thoughts, personality, and emotions. "

Nearly 100 years later, Xi Jiu followed Lu Xun's text and adapted "Cast Sword" into an image novel. The eyebrow ruler and the feast of the Ao are given a visual image outside the name - the eyebrow ruler shows an exaggerated childishness, the weak eyes are full of the light of attachment to life, full of human tenderness and fragility; while the man in black is shaped into a mysterious image between the thin ghost and the black giant bird, and his eyes seem to come from two beams of phosphorus fire in the underworld, flashing in the dim background...

The book critic "Shepherd's Water Ghost" believes that "Casting The Sword" (a new image version of Lu Xun's classic original) is like an image poem that swings back to the intestines. History and imagination burst out of great energy under the brush of the old wine, awakening the sleeping meaning of the story.

"Cast Sword" (New Image Edition of Lu Xun's Classic Original)

Lu Xun's original work was edited and painted by Xi Jiu

One page folio 丨 Guangxi Normal University Press

Published in July 2021

(The original title is "Recommendation book |.) Following Lu Xun's text, the post-90s illustrators will adapt it into an image novel"

Edited by Zhuang Sijia Gao Yuan Review Liu Chunsheng Review Zhang Xuesong Zheng Weiheng

(Author: Shenzhen Evening News reporter Liu Li)

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