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First published January 1, 1926
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Lu Xun
1,085?books365?followersLu Xun (³Ѹ) or Lu Hs¨¹n (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 ¨C October 19, 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.
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June 12, 2017
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December 23, 2016
Considered first modern story in Chinese, it is inspired by Gogol's story of same name, and like in that story, it is about a madman who is seeing things in a far better light than normal people. Not as funny though. It is written in criticism of tradionalism.
It is about a man who suffers persecution complex, goes mad after reading a few Chinese classics which mentioned the instances of cannibalism, including families exchanging children to eat and kill them during famines (they can't eat their own children). The practice was obviously cruel but no more cruel than the kind of practices societies often adopt in desperate circumstances. Anyway, to sacrifice some for sake of others, that is scapegoating, is what the metaphor of narrator's fear that people are going to eat them is for.
It is about a man who suffers persecution complex, goes mad after reading a few Chinese classics which mentioned the instances of cannibalism, including families exchanging children to eat and kill them during famines (they can't eat their own children). The practice was obviously cruel but no more cruel than the kind of practices societies often adopt in desperate circumstances. Anyway, to sacrifice some for sake of others, that is scapegoating, is what the metaphor of narrator's fear that people are going to eat them is for.
June 18, 2020
The weight was so great, I could not move. They meant that I should die. I knew that the weight was false, so I struggled out, covered in perspiration. But I had to say:
"You should change at once, change from the bottom of your hearts! You must know that in future there will be no place for man-eaters in the world . . . ."
"You should change at once, change from the bottom of your hearts! You must know that in future there will be no place for man-eaters in the world . . . ."
May 25, 2019
Wanting to eat men, at the same time afraid of being eaten themselves, they all look at each other with the deepest suspicion. . . .
How comfortable life would be for them if they could rid themselves of such obsessions and go to work, walk, eat and sleep at ease. They have only this one step to take. Yet fathers and sons, husbands and wives, brothers, friends, teachers and students, sworn enemies and even strangers, have all joined in this conspiracy, discouraging and preventing each other from taking this step.
I've read this kind of diary too many times.
May 19, 19
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December 24, 2020
"O Di¨¢rio de Um Louco" (A Madman's Diary) (1918) de Lu Xun ¨¦ um dos livros escolhidos pelo Instituto Noruegu¨ºs do Nobel para figurar na lista das 100 Obras Liter¨¢rias do Mundo, e n?o ¨¦ um livro f¨¢cil, apesar de pequeno, por causa da dist?ncia temporal e cultural. N?o sou especialista em cultura chinesa, menos ainda na do in¨ªcio do s¨¦culo passado, por isso senti dificuldade em compreender o seu verdadeiro alcance numa primeira leitura. Isto agrava-se, porque o texto est¨¢ escrito como met¨¢fora o que obriga a pesquisa de contexto, sem o que faz parecer tudo muito indiferente.
Uma c¨®pia de "O Di¨¢rio de um Louco" no Museu de Lu Xun, Pequim
Lu Xun conta a hist¨®ria de um homem semi-esquizofr¨¦nico que sofre de problemas de persegui??o e que acredita que os seus amigos, vizinhos e familiares querem n?o s¨® mat¨¢-lo, mas principalmente com¨º-lo. A meio do conto, percebemos que o personagem est¨¢ completamente ensandecido, ou parece estar, porque em todo o lado s¨® v¨º canibais.
Vamos ao contexto. Lu Xun parece pretender com esta hist¨®ria dar conta daquilo que a sociedade chinesa estava a fazer ao indiv¨ªduo chin¨ºs. A n?o permiss?o do livre pensar, o ter de ser igual a todos os demais, ¨¦ visto por Xun como um processo de canibaliza??o do ser humano. O ato de comer humanos representa o modo como a sociedade chinesa operava na elimina??o das diferen?as, aniquilando o individual para alimentar o colectivo, criando uma massa homog¨¦nea que n?o se questiona.
Enquanto lia o texto questionei-me sobre uma ideia que ¨¦ costume ouvir quando se defende o comunismo no nosso pa¨ªs, e noutros lugares: "afinal os comunistas n?o comem crian?as ao pequeno-almo?o". No Expresso existe um artigo que s¨® liga a frase aos regimes de Estaline e Mao e a per¨ªodos de fome que ter?o conduzido a surtos de canibalismo. Contudo, parece-me que a origem desse mito ¨¦ mesmo esta obra de Lux Xun, n?o s¨® pelo reconhecimento que o texto continua a ter, mas acima de tudo pela frase com que o conto termina:
"Talvez ainda haja crian?as que n?o tenham comido homens?
Salvem as crian?as...¡±
Esta frase surge no final completamente desligada do resto do texto, j¨¢ que nunca antes se fala das crian?as, mas a interpreta??o mais comum ¨¦ simples. Lu Xun j¨¢ n?o acreditaria ser poss¨ªvel salvar aqueles que tinham sido endoutrinados, era preciso esperar pelas pr¨®ximas gera??es e para isso era preciso salvar as crian?as.
O conto pode ser lido completo no portal Marxists.org.
Publicado no VI:
Uma c¨®pia de "O Di¨¢rio de um Louco" no Museu de Lu Xun, Pequim
Lu Xun conta a hist¨®ria de um homem semi-esquizofr¨¦nico que sofre de problemas de persegui??o e que acredita que os seus amigos, vizinhos e familiares querem n?o s¨® mat¨¢-lo, mas principalmente com¨º-lo. A meio do conto, percebemos que o personagem est¨¢ completamente ensandecido, ou parece estar, porque em todo o lado s¨® v¨º canibais.
Vamos ao contexto. Lu Xun parece pretender com esta hist¨®ria dar conta daquilo que a sociedade chinesa estava a fazer ao indiv¨ªduo chin¨ºs. A n?o permiss?o do livre pensar, o ter de ser igual a todos os demais, ¨¦ visto por Xun como um processo de canibaliza??o do ser humano. O ato de comer humanos representa o modo como a sociedade chinesa operava na elimina??o das diferen?as, aniquilando o individual para alimentar o colectivo, criando uma massa homog¨¦nea que n?o se questiona.
Enquanto lia o texto questionei-me sobre uma ideia que ¨¦ costume ouvir quando se defende o comunismo no nosso pa¨ªs, e noutros lugares: "afinal os comunistas n?o comem crian?as ao pequeno-almo?o". No Expresso existe um artigo que s¨® liga a frase aos regimes de Estaline e Mao e a per¨ªodos de fome que ter?o conduzido a surtos de canibalismo. Contudo, parece-me que a origem desse mito ¨¦ mesmo esta obra de Lux Xun, n?o s¨® pelo reconhecimento que o texto continua a ter, mas acima de tudo pela frase com que o conto termina:
"Talvez ainda haja crian?as que n?o tenham comido homens?
Salvem as crian?as...¡±
Esta frase surge no final completamente desligada do resto do texto, j¨¢ que nunca antes se fala das crian?as, mas a interpreta??o mais comum ¨¦ simples. Lu Xun j¨¢ n?o acreditaria ser poss¨ªvel salvar aqueles que tinham sido endoutrinados, era preciso esperar pelas pr¨®ximas gera??es e para isso era preciso salvar as crian?as.
O conto pode ser lido completo no portal Marxists.org.
Publicado no VI:
July 27, 2024
A Madman¡¯s Diary is my first Lu Xun story. It was published in 1918 in Republican era China. It¡¯s clearly inspired by Gogol¡¯s Diary of a Madman.
In the short story, a man is becoming increasingly paranoid. He believes everyone is out to get him.
Apparently it¡¯s a critique of Chinese society, but I could only interpret it in the the literal sense. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant read that I finished in a single sitting.
In the short story, a man is becoming increasingly paranoid. He believes everyone is out to get him.
Apparently it¡¯s a critique of Chinese society, but I could only interpret it in the the literal sense. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant read that I finished in a single sitting.
November 25, 2022
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October 4, 2022
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February 20, 2018
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December 12, 2017
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September 22, 2014
This short, conversationally-written text is beguilingly difficult to fully appreciate without a solid understanding of the text's social, cultural, and historic context. It was only with help of secondary sources (e.g., literary analysis) that I could grasp and admire the sophisticated and scathing commentary on the groupthink, scapegoating, and other group level defenses that LX found to permeate the then-Chinese society. I read this in the original Chinese.
April 13, 2016
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June 13, 2020
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November 8, 2021
I've read this three or four times in the last few years, and I love it more each time. Xun does such a great job making you feel uneasy both about the possibility that he might not be crazy at all, but also that his tone is so suspicious, it seems impossible that he isn't a little crazy. This middle ground perhaps means to communicate that when finding out something elemental and evil about the culture one lives in, you can start to go a little crazy for real, when you realize what you think isn't crazy. So this "madman" is perhaps correct that people are eating each other (think in a more metaphorical sense), but it is such a shock to his system that he is not able to accept it without also losing control of his psyche in other areas. Or perhaps he is only able to grasp the horror of the carnivorous social structure around him by going mad and envisioning what is more conceptual and less obvious as literal cannibalism. But the saddest thing of all is that the intro notes the author of the diary now has a good government job. That's just downright dark, Lu!
April 9, 2023
3.5 ?.
Un libro super cortico, que deja una gran ense?anza. Me pregunto si realmente el escritor quiso transmitir todo lo que siento que me lleg¨®, o si simplemente quer¨ªa hacer un relato corto, un poco morboso y surrealista. Cosas que no me dejan dormir.
Me pareci¨® genial, solo que muy corto para que me llegara a encantar, quiz¨¢s soy una chica de libros largos o de historias complejas.
El diario de un loco es la muestra de que el hombre lleva mucho tiempo comi¨¦ndose a s¨ª mismo, de que es el principal peligro para su especie. Y de que la sociedad est¨¢ dise?ada para que nos aplastemos unos a otros, para que escalemos a costa del bien ajeno, de que dejemos de lado la humanidad porque esta es de cobardes o mejor aun, de locos.
Porque el que no siga las sendas ya marcada, ser¨¢ tachado de loco.
Yo me quedo con lo siguiente:
?Habr¨¢ alg¨²n ni?o que no coma hombre?
Salvemos a los ni?os.......
Un libro super cortico, que deja una gran ense?anza. Me pregunto si realmente el escritor quiso transmitir todo lo que siento que me lleg¨®, o si simplemente quer¨ªa hacer un relato corto, un poco morboso y surrealista. Cosas que no me dejan dormir.
Me pareci¨® genial, solo que muy corto para que me llegara a encantar, quiz¨¢s soy una chica de libros largos o de historias complejas.
El diario de un loco es la muestra de que el hombre lleva mucho tiempo comi¨¦ndose a s¨ª mismo, de que es el principal peligro para su especie. Y de que la sociedad est¨¢ dise?ada para que nos aplastemos unos a otros, para que escalemos a costa del bien ajeno, de que dejemos de lado la humanidad porque esta es de cobardes o mejor aun, de locos.
Porque el que no siga las sendas ya marcada, ser¨¢ tachado de loco.
Yo me quedo con lo siguiente:
?Habr¨¢ alg¨²n ni?o que no coma hombre?
Salvemos a los ni?os.......
October 26, 2016
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February 24, 2022
Very short story in the tradition of Gogol. With very few words Lu Xun manages to say a great deal about the estrangement of mental illness and share an evocative picture of small town China in the early 20th century. I recommend the audio book version of this - the names are carefully pronounced with their tones.
December 21, 2016
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April 2, 2018
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March 29, 2019
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June 12, 2020
Read in the original Chinese. It is very disturbing to follow logical prose that nonchalantly expresses illogical ideas. And the ending -- ›]ÓгÔß^È˵ĺ¢×Ó£¬»òÕß߀ÓУ¿ -- is something else.
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March 25, 2021letting ppl know i can read stories in chinese now mkdjnvkf
November 22, 2015
En 1969 Pasolini film¨® una pel¨ªcula muy extra?a, Porcile. En medio de un desierto volc¨¢nico un joven desnudo dice una y otra vez:
Es, claramente, una alegor¨ªa pol¨ªtica del esp¨ªritu de 1968. Lu Xun, por el contrario, escribe una alegor¨ªa pol¨ªtica en la China de 1919. Locura no es la del chino con man¨ªa persecutoria, que piensa que todos lo quieren comer. Su man¨ªa es ver, leer, enterarse de que existen hombres que comen hombres (literal y metaf¨®rico). Su locura se potencia con los actos nefastos y la locura de la sociedad en que vive: una mujer que le pega a su hijito en la calle, enterarse que en un pueblo que conoce se han comido el coraz¨®n y el h¨ªgado de un ladr¨®n, que su hermano no quiere reducir el alquiler de sus tierras, que en los viejos libros de historia abundan ejemplos (metaf¨®ricos o no) de canibalismo.
Las alegor¨ªas pol¨ªticas tienen la gracia de no perder nunca vigencia. Por eso, esta frase tan enigm¨¢tica que dice el chino paranoico nos suena no s¨®lo a prof¨¦tica con respecto a la historia de China en el s. XX, si no a nivel mundial. ?Acaso existe una sociedad en el mundo que hoy no tenga crisis de valores?; sociedades en que, parafraseando a ese otro marxista italiano ¨C ¡°lo nuevo que no termina de nacer, lo viejo que no termina de morir¡±. Entonces leemos al chino paranoico que se dirige a su hermano (tambi¨¦n can¨ªbal) y a quien lo oiga:
Ho ucciso mio padre
ho mangiato carne umana
ed ora tremo di gioia
(He matado a mi padre / He comido carne humana / Tiemblo de alegr¨ªa)
Es, claramente, una alegor¨ªa pol¨ªtica del esp¨ªritu de 1968. Lu Xun, por el contrario, escribe una alegor¨ªa pol¨ªtica en la China de 1919. Locura no es la del chino con man¨ªa persecutoria, que piensa que todos lo quieren comer. Su man¨ªa es ver, leer, enterarse de que existen hombres que comen hombres (literal y metaf¨®rico). Su locura se potencia con los actos nefastos y la locura de la sociedad en que vive: una mujer que le pega a su hijito en la calle, enterarse que en un pueblo que conoce se han comido el coraz¨®n y el h¨ªgado de un ladr¨®n, que su hermano no quiere reducir el alquiler de sus tierras, que en los viejos libros de historia abundan ejemplos (metaf¨®ricos o no) de canibalismo.
Las alegor¨ªas pol¨ªticas tienen la gracia de no perder nunca vigencia. Por eso, esta frase tan enigm¨¢tica que dice el chino paranoico nos suena no s¨®lo a prof¨¦tica con respecto a la historia de China en el s. XX, si no a nivel mundial. ?Acaso existe una sociedad en el mundo que hoy no tenga crisis de valores?; sociedades en que, parafraseando a ese otro marxista italiano ¨C ¡°lo nuevo que no termina de nacer, lo viejo que no termina de morir¡±. Entonces leemos al chino paranoico que se dirige a su hermano (tambi¨¦n can¨ªbal) y a quien lo oiga:
-?Pod¨¦is reformaros! ?Reformaros desde el fondo de vuestro coraz¨®n! Deb¨¦is saber que en el futuro no se permitir¨¢ vivir en el mundo a la gente que come hombre...
December 13, 2020
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February 1, 2021
I wasn't sure I was going to like this book as much as I ended up liking it. Glad that I read it, although, I read it for one of my literature courses I'm still glad I did.
December 7, 2024
I love the contrast between the preface, written in classic language, and the diary, written in vernacular language. It is a very clever way to symbolise a conformist society through a scholar and the raw, unfiltered vision of the sickness this society creates, seen through the eyes of a madman who can¡¯t be heard.
The madman believes that everyone around him eats human beings which perfectly symbolises how Chinese society has been completely dehumanised.
Individuals have been shoved in specific boxes and it is impossible for them to fully exist outside of these roles and express themselves.
And anyone who tries to warn others, to make them see the reality, is dismissed as insane. They end up, just like the madman, locked up, silenced, and marginalized.
The fact that the protagonist has conformed to society and works as a public servant could be seen as Lu Xun showing that there is no hope in rebellion and that, in the end, everyone conforms to societal norms because they fear rejection.
However, the ending shows that this short story actually conveys a very hopeful message.
¡°Perhaps there are still children who have not eaten men ? Save the children¡¡±
The madman believes that everyone around him eats human beings which perfectly symbolises how Chinese society has been completely dehumanised.
Individuals have been shoved in specific boxes and it is impossible for them to fully exist outside of these roles and express themselves.
And anyone who tries to warn others, to make them see the reality, is dismissed as insane. They end up, just like the madman, locked up, silenced, and marginalized.
The fact that the protagonist has conformed to society and works as a public servant could be seen as Lu Xun showing that there is no hope in rebellion and that, in the end, everyone conforms to societal norms because they fear rejection.
However, the ending shows that this short story actually conveys a very hopeful message.
¡°Perhaps there are still children who have not eaten men ? Save the children¡¡±
December 13, 2020
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February 23, 2018
Although this story was inspired by Gogol's Diary of a Madman, it is more sophisticated and meaningful, with more elaborate metaphors and a thought provoking, ironical ending (revealed at the beginning).
I especially liked the connection between this short story and the photograph that induced Lu Xun to pursue a career in literature.
In spite of not agreeing with his political thoughts, I like his viewpoint on the concept of oppression of the society and how he likens it to, well... you have to read the story.
I especially liked the connection between this short story and the photograph that induced Lu Xun to pursue a career in literature.
In spite of not agreeing with his political thoughts, I like his viewpoint on the concept of oppression of the society and how he likens it to, well... you have to read the story.
July 7, 2018
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December 19, 2022
Musste wegen der Atmosph?re und des Themas sofort an The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt denken. Die ?bersetzung, die ich gelesen habe scheint gut zu sein (Hrsg. Hoffmann/H?henrieder). Das Gef¨¹hl, was die lesende Person empfinden soll, ist bei der Translation nicht verloren gegangen.
W¨¹rde gerne wissen wie popul?r diese Story w?hrend der 4.Mai Bewegung war. Also wie viele es wohl gelesen haben bzw es erz?hlt bekommen haben?
W¨¹rde gerne wissen wie popul?r diese Story w?hrend der 4.Mai Bewegung war. Also wie viele es wohl gelesen haben bzw es erz?hlt bekommen haben?
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