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Short story · 1918

A Madman's Diary

Lu Xun

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Short story · 1918 · Chinese · Modern

A Madman's Diary

Lu Xun

A man reads 'eat people' between the lines of the classics.

ModernismAllegoryCannibalismTraditionMadness

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The first major work in vernacular Chinese; paranoia used as a method of historical reading.

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A man reads 'eat people' between the lines of the classics.

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