Chapter 17 A collection of woodcut stories about Maisie Lehrer

A collection of woodcut stories about Maisie Lehrer We should be familiar with the works of contemporary old Belgian printmaker Franz Maiselle, because For his four woodcut serial stories "A Man's Suffering", "My Confession", "The Story Without Words" Things" and "The Pursuit of Brightness" were introduced to China as early as 1933. In the summer of 1933, I bought several volumes of Masereller's woodcut stories in a German bookstore in Shanghai. I met Zhao Jiabi of Liangyou Book Company at that time. At this time, Liangyou Company was working on

In addition, it turned to the printing of new literature and art books.Zhao Jiabi wanted to reprint these woodcut collections and asked Mr. Lu Xun for them Mr. Lu Xun thought it was possible, and agreed to write a preface, so this work was formally carried out up.This is the reason why these four collections of woodcut stories by Maisie Reiler were published in China.Lu Xun The husband selected "A Man's Passion", he wrote the preface himself, and handed over "My Confession" to Yu Yu. Foreword by Mr. Duff.Since I am the "owner" of these books and I have always liked woodcuts, I

I was assigned a copy of "The Pursuit of Brightness" and wrote a preface."A Story Without Words" left No one wrote the preface, because Zhao Jiabi was the editor of "Good Friend", so he volunteered to be the editor of this article. Book writing work. Originally, there was an introduction in the front of each volume, which was written in German. Mr. Lu Xun and Mr. Yu Dafu Both of the students understand German, it seems easy, I don’t understand German, it’s a pain, I look up the dictionary by myself, I went to ask Duan Keqing, who knew German, and consulted other materials, and finally I managed to write the preface.but

Later, Mr. Lu Xun inevitably ridiculed a few words in an article, saying that I only know that I have said a lot of things. Regarding the history of woodcuts, I forgot to introduce "The Pursuit of Brightness" itself. As for the originals of the four volumes of woodcut collections, I originally lent them to Liangyou Company. Later, Zhao Jiabi said Each volume was disassembled during plate making, and they refused to return it to me.It was very difficult to buy German documents in Shanghai at that time. Although I was compensated for the price of the book, it was no longer available, so I lost the original four volumes.it is good

Now that a reprint has been made, and it is well printed, I have nothing more to say. These four volumes of Maisie Lehrer's woodcut stories have been out of print for a long time. Once visited China, it was reprinted in Shanghai.First printed "A Person's Feelings" with Mr. Lu Xun's preface Difficulty", and later reprinted the book "My Confession" written by Mr. Yu Dafu. In "Lu Xun's Letters", there are three letters to Zhao Jiabi, which are about these four woodcut stories. set of.