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A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 by Lu Xun

soroushtorkian's review against another edition

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5.0

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这本我几年前读完。
我本来不认识为什么有这么多残忍的事情。发生了什么事呢?然后,然后我发现这本日记不是这个狂人的日记,而是描述当时的社会如何行为。我读这本的时候用了一本有很多方言词汇的书,没想到有一个更清楚的普通话版本。希望有人能告诉我一个更简单的版本所以我能来再看一遍这个故事。
如果有一个关于当时的历史本,请您也来告诉我。
谢谢大家。请原谅我的不好的中文。

onceuponatime's review against another edition

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reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Very interesting novella and allegory about Confucian values.
Eat your young. 

petalsujim's review against another edition

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4.0

literatura chińska made me read it i niczego n żałuje czekam jak będziemy to analizować na zajęciach

spacestationtrustfund's review against another edition

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3.0

灵感来自尼古拉果戈理的《狂人日记》,鲁迅的《狂人日记》是中国现代文学史上第一篇真正的现代白话小说。是鲁迅1918年发表的第一篇白话短篇小说,当时正值“五四”运动的前夜。由于辛亥革命的关途而废,特别是帝国主义侵略的加剧,使社会各种矛盾更加复杂尖锐。鲁迅以他锐敏的思想和犀利的笔触,对封建制度及其上层建筑表现了彻底的反抗。令人惊异的是,这部中国现代小说史上具有开山意义的作品,已经显示出极其成熟的特色,使后来的许多研究者为之倾倒,究其原因,除了鲁迅深厚的文学素养外,我们也无法不叹服于魯迅先生的天才。

还有:《狂人日记》和《阿Q正傳》(法文),《阿Q正傳》等故事《狂人日记》等故事

monoton_iya's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

4.75


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sleepypages's review against another edition

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for class

albertzoom11's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

lenriquegheredia's review against another edition

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4.0

This short story is mindblowing! It has this innovative style that resembles psychologic study cases. In this case the main character has a persecutory delusion, so he thinks everyone is cannibal and is trying to eat him, even his brother. In some sense, this is an allusion to some human conducts that seem as predatory as canibalism, such as landowners, human trafficking, rape... Still, the fear is founded in a factual precedent of real canibalism within his community and culture.

The thing that has me thrilled, is that I'm unable to figure out if our protagonist is actually sane now, that he indeed recovered, or that is it all a cover up from his brother, and he actually ate him after all... It's all kinda sketchy!!

_merel_'s review against another edition

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4.0

Very short but very powerful. The gradual descent to madness is haunting and reminded me a lot of Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper . Written as a diary, the growing insanity of the narrator feels very suffocating and made me forget anything else while reading.

chrischriscris's review against another edition

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3.0

Esto sí es un relato. Amazing.