National Image Construction in Gogol and Lu Xun’s Literary Creation from the Perspective of Imagology

Gogol and Lu Xun, as the famous realist writers in Russia and China respectively, enjoying a high status and reputation in the literary circles. At the same time, Lu Xun’s literary creation was deeply influenced by Gogol, which is evident in Lu Xun' translation of Gogol’s book "Dead Souls" and the creation of the novel "The Diary of a Madman" of the same name. This provides an opportunity to study the interoperability of the two literary creations from the perspective of comparative literature. In the category of comparative literary imageology, this paper starts from the two aspects of the explicit narrator, the literary work, and the implicit narrator, the national ideology, and explores the construction process of the national image in the interactive relationship between the "self" and the "other".