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I took the diary away, read it through, and found that he had suffered from a form of persecution complex. The writing was most confused and incoherent, and he had made many wild statements; moreover he had omitted to give any dates, so that only by the colour of the ink and the differences in the writing could one tell that it was not written ...
Jean, my servant, had a goldfinch in a cage hung in the office window. I sent him on an errand, and I took the little bird in my hand, in my hand where I felt its heart beat. It was warm. I went up to my room. From time to time I squeezed it tighter; its heart beat faster; it was atrocious and delicious.
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Feb 16, 2016 · English-language translations of. 狂人日記 (A Madman's Diary) (1918) by Lu Xun. →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. English-language translations of 狂人日記 include: A Madman's Diary, translated by Wikisource. Categories: 1918 works.
Feb 16, 2009 · Like Gogol in "The Cloak" and other tales, Xun approaches our dilemmas with irony and satire. The diarist is trapped in the past as he rushes towards the future. As with Gogol, Xun captures the struggles of individuals in a disinterested world. Ironically, Lu Xun's works were revered by Chairman Mao. Although a leftist, Xun never joined the party.
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olution, and democracy. "Diary of a Madman," I argue here, is a modernist text that critically expresses that longing. Such a reading necessarily challenges the conventional understanding of Lu Xun and incurs some theoretical difficulties: it seems to put an old-fash-ioned and essentially Western label on the twentieth-century Chinese
The story can be read as a sardonic attack on traditional Chinese culture and society and a call for a new cultural direction. "Diary of a Madman" is the opening story in Lu Xun's first collection, and has often been referred to as "China's first modern short story". [2] Along with Chen Hengzhe 's "One Day", it was among the most influential ...
