Some brothers, who don't say their names now, are my good friends in middle school. After years of separation, I gradually don't know much about them. I happened to hear that one of them was very ill the other day. I just went back to my hometown and made a detour to visit their home. As a result, I only saw one person

He said that it was his brother who was ill. It's very kind of me to come all the way to see him, but it's all right. Now I'm going to work somewhere else! Speaking of this, he smiled and showed me two diaries, saying that he could see the illness at that time and might as well dedicate them to his old friends! I took it back and watched it again. I know he may be suffering from "persecutors" or something.

The language is quite confusing, with many absurd words; I don't write the month and date, but the ink color and font are inconsistent, so it's not written at once. Some of them are occasionally slightly related, and now they are extracted into an article for medical scientists to study.

The typos in the diary are not changed, except for the names of people who come from the countryside and are not known to the public, but they have all been changed. As for the title of the book, it was written after the patient recovered and will not be changed. Diary of April 2, 2007.

Preface to Diary of a Madman:

A gentleman, Kun Zhong, whose real name is Yin Jin, was a good friend in middle school. After years of separation, the news gradually disappeared. I occasionally heard of a serious illness the other day; When you go back to your hometown to visit, you will only meet one person, saying that the brother of the sick person is also. The old gentleman came all the way to see you, but he has recovered. He went to a place where he stood by and watched. Because I laughed, I published two diaries with the symptoms of the day. I might as well give them to my old friend.

After reading it, I realized that I was suffering from "persecution mania" and so on. The language is quite incoherent, with many absurd words; It's not the month and date, but the ink font is different, so it's not a temporary handwriting. There are also some people who have a little contact with each other. Today I will summarize one for doctors to study. It is not easy for a word to remember Chinese mistakes; However, although people's names are all villagers, they are unknown to the world and it doesn't matter, but they are also easy to walk. As for the title, I will never change it again. I met on April 2, 1977.

Diary of a Madman, written in April of 19 18, is the first short vernacular diary novel written by Lu Xun and the first modern vernacular novel written by China.

Diary of a Madman not only shows the courage to thoroughly criticize feudal ethics, but also shows Lu Xun's "grief and indignation" humanitarian feelings and the overall spirit of transforming society and life with literary and artistic creation.

Main idea of the work:

The whole work of Diary of a Madman is almost a confession of a madman's inner world. A madman thinks that everyone around him is eating people, and he will be forced to eat people or be eaten by others. The madman was locked up, refused food sent by his family, refused to receive treatment, and kept persuading people around him not to eat people again. Until the madman finally found out that he might have accidentally eaten his sister's meat. Desperate lunatics send out "children who don't eat people, or are there?" Save the children ... "Shout.

At the beginning of the novel, in the preface of A Madman's Diary, I wrote: "The old gentleman came from a long way, but he recovered early and has gone somewhere to stand by." The madman's illness is cured, suggesting that others are mentally abnormal. In everyone's eyes, a madman is a patient with persecution phobia. In the eyes of a madman, everyone else is a cannibal. Such different angles and positions profoundly reveal the sorrow of a sick society.

Lu Xun's novels are unique in material selection. In the choice of themes, Lu Xun reformed the mode of choosing only "brave men, thieves and robbers, monsters and immortals, talented people and beautiful women, followed by prostitutes and lackeys" in classical literature, and created two major themes of modern literature with "for life" as the enlightenment purpose.

His materials "are mostly taken from the unfortunate people in the sick society." Lu Xun has an extremely unique vision in dealing with these subjects. When observing and expressing his hero, he has his own unique perspective, that is, he always pays attention to the mental "diseases" of intellectuals and farmers in the "sick society".

Therefore, in Hometown, the most shocking thing is not the poverty of the leap soil, but the mental numbness shown by his "master". The exploration of the subject matter of intellectuals focuses on their mental trauma and crisis. For example, in the dining room, we saw that the heroes who fought alone in the Revolution of 1911 could not get rid of the lonely fate, returned to the original point under the oppression of the powerful feudal tradition, and consumed their lives in decline.

Lu Xun's reform evolved into two novel plots and structural modes: "seeing/being seen" and "going home" in Scream and Wandering. In the novels presented to the public, everyone only plays the role of "watching", and the relationship between them is only "watching" and "being watched", thus forming the binary opposition between "watching" and "being watched", which is manifested in the Diary of a Madman, Kong Yiji, Blessing and other novels.

In the mode of "returning home", Lu Xun tells other people's stories as well as his own, which permeates and influences each other and forms a polyphony. For example, in Blessing, he talked about the triple relationship of "I", "Sister Xianglin" and "Lu Zhen", including the stories of "I" and "Lu Zhen" as well as the stories of Sister Xianglin and Lu Zhen.

The two stories are connected in series, and the soul of "I" is tortured by Xianglinsao's question, thus revealing the internal relationship between "I" and the traditional spirit of Luzhen. Novels similar to this model include Hometown, Lonely Man and In a Restaurant.