Chapter 43 Preface to the First Issue of "Yanwen"

Readers: You may imagine that some people occasionally have a little free time, read some foreign works by chance, translate them by chance, bump into one place by chance, have a good talk, and want to add a little excitement to this "magazine year". Finally, by accident and by accident, I found a few comrades and a bookstore that did the printing, so this little "Translation" came into being. There is no limit to the raw materials: from the most ancient to the most recent.The categories are not fixed either: novels, dramas, poems, essays, essays, and more.Translate directly from the original text, or retranslate indirectly: I thought it would work.There is only one condition: all are "translations".

In addition to text, add more pictures.There are also some related to the text, which are intended to be interesting; some have nothing to do with the text, which is a little meaning we contribute to the readers. The copied pictures always retain a little more original flavor than the copied text.I don’t dare to boast about my translation skills, but I can only be confident that I don’t mean to be sloppy; I don’t want to raise the banner of “reviving the translation”——I don’t have such ambitions, but it’s just a few Two colleagues studied each other, and printed it out for people who like to read translations as a reference.If some profound and thoughtful people think that this is some kind of way to save the "decline", then we can only smile and say: "Learn! Learn! We are astute in your thoughts!" EE

〔1〕This article was originally published in the inaugural issue of the Shanghai "Yiwen" monthly magazine on September 16, 1934, without a signature. "Yiwen", a monthly translation and introduction of foreign literature, was founded in September 1934 in Shanghai.The first three issues were edited by Lu Xun, and later edited by Huang Yuan.Published by Shanghai Life Bookstore.It ceased publication in September 1935.It was republished in March 1936 and published by Shanghai Magazine Company.From June 1937 to the end of the fourth issue of the new three volumes, a total of 29 issues were published.