The Missing Link： Japan as an Intermediary in the Transculturation of the Diary of A Madman (1)研究.pdfVIP

Front．Lit．Stud．China2014，8(2)：331-346 DOI10．3868／s010．003—014．0016．4 XiaoluM a TheMissingLink：JapanasanIntermediaryin theTranSCUItUratiOnoftheDiaryofAMadman Abstraet TheDiaryofAMadman(Kuangrenrift)，LUXun’Sfirstwel1．known shortstory and thealleged firstmodem shortstory in vernacularChinese．is famousforitsfirst．personnarrativebyan intellectualthatissufferingfrom a persecutioncomplex．AsacknowledgedbyLUXunhimselfandarguedbymost scholars．thisshortstorywasinfluencedbyGogol’Shomonymicshortstory,but hasdeveloped moreprofound melancholy and indignation．However,asmy Paperdemonstrates．thisperspectiveneglectstheroleofJapanasanintermediary inthetransculturationofmadness．First．LuXun’SinitialencounterwithGogol’S DiaryofAMadmanwasthroughhisreadingofFutabateiShimei’Stranslationin theJapanesemagazineKy6mi．Second，therfamednarrativeand contrasting stylesofLuXun’Sshortstory,which arenotfeaturesofGogol’S，mightalsobe duetotheinspirationfrom theJapanesegenbunitchimovementintheMeiji period．Third．andmostimportantly,cannibalism，amajorthemeinLuXun’S DiaryofAMadman．wasarguablyshapedbytheheateddiscussioninJapanon nationalcharacterandcannibalism．MYpaperwilltracethedoubleoriginofthe depiction ofmadnessand cann ibalism in Lu Xun’SWOrk and illustrate the importanceoftheroleofJapaninthetransculturationofthestory ofamadman． Keywords Diary of A Madman，Lu Xun，transculturation，madness， cannibalism Introduction TheDiaryojA’Madman(Kuangrenrift)，LuXun’sfirstwel1．knownshortstory LuXun’SDiaryofAMadmanwasknownforitsavant-gardism andthereforeChinese scholarstendto entitleitwith many “firsts”thathavebeenprovenwrong．LuXun’Sfirst publishedshortstorywasactuallyHuaijiu[Returntothepast]writteninclassicalChinese publishedinXiaoshuoyuebao[Fictionmonthly]，whichhardlyattractedanyattention． XiaoluMa(因) DepartmentofComparativeLiterature，HarvardUniversity，Cambridge，MA 02138，USA E-mail：xlma@fas．harvard．edu 332 Xiaolu Ma