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Sep 1, 1990 · Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. Lu Xun. University of Hawaii Press, Sep 1, 1990 - Fiction - 440 pages. "Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English idiom that masterfully captures the sardonic wit, melancholy pathos, and ironic vision of China's first truly modern writer."
6 Diary of a Madman – Lu Xun Diary of a Madman “Diary of a Madman” License: Public Domain Lu Xun. Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang . Two brothers, whose names I need not mention here, were both good friends of mine in high school; but after a separation of many years we gradually lost touch. Some time ago I happened to hear that one of them was seriously ill, and since I was going back to my
Diary of a Madman – Lu Xun Diary of a Madman. Diary of a Madman License: Public Domain Lu Xun Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang. Two brothers, whose names I need not mention here, were both good friends of mine in high school; but after a separation of many years we gradually lost touch.
In his 1925 “Required reading for youth” 青年必讀書, Lu Xun exhorted young Chinese to read more foreign works and fewer Chinese works, if any at all.1 It is thus somewhat ironic to suggest here that Lu Xun’s works, in particular “Diary of a Madman” (1918), be considered in discussions of what students should read in the Chinese ...
Lu Xun, 魯迅. This English and Chinese bilingual edition of a "A Madman's Diary" was first published in 1918 by Lu Xun, one of the greatest writers in 20th-century Chinese literature. This short story is one of the first and most influential modern works written in vernacular Chinese and would become a cornerstone of the New Culture Movement.
Diary of a Madman (Guy de Maupassant), a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Diary of a Madman (Lu Xun), a short story by Lu Xun, also known as A Madman's Diary. Diary of a Lunatic, a short story by Leo Tolstoy sometimes translated as "The Diary of a Madman". Diary of a Mad Old Man, a novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
Lu Xun employs epistolary technique and uses diary entries to blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The introduction, wherein the “madman’s” elder brother gives the narrator the diary, is written in classical Chinese—a dialect employed by court officials, historians, and members of the traditional educated elite.
