The complete set of Lu's collected works is in five volumes. The first three volumes are long, medium and short stories respectively, and the last two volumes are prose, totaling 1.8 million words. The style of the whole book was arranged by Lu Wenfu himself during his lifetime and was done by the publisher. Some tweaks.
Mr. Lu Wenfu lived in Suzhou for most of his life. He created a series of novels with Suzhou as the background, such as "Gourmet", "Deep in the Alley", "The Window Facing the Street", etc. During his lifetime, Lu Wenfu saw that the graphic version of his last book "Gourmet" was also published by Guwuxuan Publishing House. The book was selected as one of the "20 Most Beautiful Books" by readers at the Beijing Book Expo in September 2005. "one. Lu Wenfu was born on March 23, 1928 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Suzhou Middle School in 1948 and went to the Liberated Areas of Northern Jiangsu to participate in the revolution in the same year. In 1949, he crossed the Yangtze River and returned to Suzhou, where he worked as a journalist for eight years. In 1955, he began to embark on the road of literary creation. In 1956, he published the short story "Deep in the Alley" and became famous in one fell swoop. However, he was quickly labeled as a rightist and was sent to rural areas and factories for labor reform for a long time. It was not until 1978 that he returned to Suzhou to engage in professional creation and later edited "Suzhou Magazine". He once served as vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association, and vice chairman of the Suzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Died on July 9, 2005. In his fifty-year literary career, Lu Wenfu has made outstanding achievements in novels, essays, literary criticism and other aspects. Excellent works such as "Qing Gao" and "The Nest of Man" and literary theory collections such as "Novel Talk" are well-known in the literary world. The works have also been translated into English, French, Japanese and other languages ??and sold well overseas.