阿Q正傳
By Lu Xun
Cover: Clearing Autumn Sky over a Fishing Village by Wang Hui (1632-1717) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Ah Q, a village odd-job man who turns every humiliation into a private victory, drifts toward the 1911 Revolution without understanding it. Lu Xun's novella is a comic and merciless portrait of a man and, through him, of a nation. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.