E ASIAN 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Communist Party Of China, Hypochondriasis, Ding Ling
26 Feb 2020
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Beginning of chapter 6: weizhuangdid not catch another glimpse of ah-q until just past the mid-autumn festival. Remarking in surprise upon his sudden return, the villagers suddenly wondered where he had been all this time. Thus we see that the narrator is one of the villagers. That means that he share their biases and opinions. Lesson: never trust the narrator -- especially not lu xun"s narrators. The real story of ah-q : the narrative frame. Allegory: a story that can be interpreted to have a deeper political or moral meaning. There is no way to answer these questions without further considering the role and position of the story"s narrator. Opening lines of the real story of ah-q . For some years now, i"ve been wanting to set down for posterity the story of ah-q, but time and again have quailed before the difficulty of the task evidence enough that i am no seeker after literary fame.
