Lonely Foreigner

Lonely Foreigner introduction: Lin Xianzhi, poet, scholar Among his works, articles of literature and criticism on thoughts are the most influential. His The Spirit of May Fourth Movement and Fifty Years: An Observation on Essays and Freedom are widely spread. His early works, The Mortal World and Lu Xun, and the newly-published The Last Decade of Luxun also trigger wide discussions. Lonely Foreigner is a collecion of his essays. The collected works can be categorized into two types: One is about homeland, the other is about foreign lands; one is about reality, the other is about the world of books; one is about memories, the other is about Utopia, the imaginary future. Lonely Foreigner is only one of the collected essays, and it has won the first "e;Presence Essay Award"e;, the award with the highest reward for single award in Chinese literature circle. The Sorrow of Wilderness introduction: It is said that essay means "e;atempt"e; in Latin. Montaigne Essays is using this meaning. Atempt means unfinished. It means that we could discuss the same object from different angles and broader dimensions. And it means the doubt, denial and overthrow of the existing orders. The life of essays lives in liberty. This genre best demonstrates the principles of individualization. It is against inevitability, completion, standards, ultimate and system. It is a growing genre. Lu Xun defends "e;random thoughts"e; and Benjamin appreciates "e;fragments"e;. These are both because essays can most tolerate the spirit of freedom and criticism. In The Man Without Qualities of Austrian writer, "e;Thinking Citizen"e; Musil, the protagonist Ulrich calls himself "e;essayisticism"e;, which is actually the ontology of the writer. We could see from it that "e;essay"e; itself includes the meaning of the freedom of choice.