Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction

by Jeremy Tambling

Book Overview

Madmen and Other Survivors Reading Lu Xun's Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writer between 1918 and 1926 into a broad context of Modernism. The fiction of Lu Xun (1881-1936) deals with the China moving beyond the 1911 Revolution. He asks about the possibilities of survival, and what that means, even considering the possibility that madness might be a strategy by which that is possible. Such an idea calls identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9622098258
• ISBN13: 9789622098251
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.6"