(狂人日記, (CTA), dated April 1918) This story ostensibly reveals the delusions of a man who has passed through a period of madness, and has now returned to sanity and participation in "normal" society.Ī theme in the story is the nature of reality, and the difficulty of attaining a perspective from which to see reality clearly. Lu Xun also describes one of his overarching objectives as a writer and social critic: he sees society as "an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation." Is it possible to help them? Or will he only make them suffer unnecessarily by intervening?
An important thread to this preface is his encounters with traditional Chinese medicine and the problems of health care, which bears directly on several stories in the collection. In the preface, signed on December 3, 1922, Lu Xun describes the evolution of his social concerns. It is a theme in many stories, especially Kong Yiji and The New Year Sacrifice. The stories look at the specific dysfunctions of particular customs and institutions, and also at the general result in which people are discarded. It is a theme in many stories, including Kong Yiji, My Old Home, In the Wine Shop, Regret for the Past, and others.Ī third major theme in the stories is commentary on traditional customs and institutions. Ī second major theme in the stories is the problem of how members of the intellectual class are to live their lives.
Lu Xun employed point of view in his stories in a way that was novel at the time for Chinese literature, helping readers consider new possibilities about the true nature of the reality around them. See in particular A Madman's Diary and The True Story of Ah Q. Wodehouse Patricia Highsmith Ray Bradbury Raymond Carver Richard Bausch Sean O'Faolain Sherman Alexie Sherwood Anderson Stephen King Stuart Dybek T.One major theme in the stories in this collection is that habits of mind (psychology or "spirit") need to be examined improvements in material conditions and institutions, while important, are not sufficient by themselves to renew China. Scott Fitzgerald Flannery O'Connor Frank O'Connor Franz Kafka George Saunders Grace Paley Guy de Maupassant Haruki Murakami Henry James Isaac Babel James Alan McPherson James Joyce James Thurber John Cheever John O'Hara John Updike Jorge Luis Borges Joyce Carol Oates Junot Díaz Karen Russell Kate Chopin Langston Hughes Leonard Michaels Leo Tolstoy Lorrie Moore Maeve Brennan Maile Meloy Mary Gaitskill Nathaniel Hawthorne Neil Gaiman O. Popular Authors on SSMT Agatha Christie Alice Munro Ambrose Bierce Amy Hempel Ann Beattie Anton Chekhov Arthur Conan Doyle Barry Hannah Bernard Malamud Clarice Lispector Donald Barthelme Edgar Allan Poe Edna O'Brien Edward P.
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