The True Story of Ah Q (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lu Xun
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: Wei, a village in China
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Class conflict, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Villages, Death or dying, Small-town life, Outlaws, China or Chinese people, East and West, Satire
- Locales: China
Characters Discussed
Ah Q, an impoverished, homeless man in his late twenties who loafs around the village where he lives and earns his living by working at various odd jobs. Lean and weak, he has a bald spot on his head, a physical blemish caused by scabies that often makes him the butt of jokes among the people of the village of Wei. Whenever he suffers humiliation, however, he is always able to find solace and even triumph through his imagination. He leads a relatively quiet, though obscure and insignificant, life in the countryside until one day when the entire village...
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