Kollwitz,
“Tod und Frau”
(“Death
and Woman,” also known as “Death Seizes a Woman,” lithography, 1910)
Woman
Caught by Death
Lu Xun
(1936); tr. by Huiwen Zhang (2015)
Death
emerges out of her own shadow, attacks her from behind, entangles her, ties her
hands back; a boy left alone, weak and small, is unable to cry his loving
mother back. In the blink of an eye, facing opposites are two
universes. Death is on earth the supreme tai-chi master; dying is
in present society the ultimate tragedy; yet the woman in the picture is
undoubtedly most awesome.
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