Chronology Entry
Year
1903-1938
Text
Lu Xun and Edgar Allan Poe
Lu Xun's knowledge of Poe is by no means limited to The gold bug, however. In one of his early essays, he remarked that "The black cat in Edgar Allan Poe's tale is really horrible". Later, in an introduction to Mark Twain's Eve's diary, he made a judicious comparison between Twain and other nineteenth-century American writers : Poe, Hawthorne, and Whitman. He pointed out that Twain was outwardly a humorist, but inwardly a misanthrope, although Poe, Hawthorne and Whitman did not, like Twain, "think in one way, but behave in another". He also noticed that American writers before the Civil War could easily keep their individualist features, but after the Civil War they had to adapt themselves to the social requirements of a highly developed capitalist system. These remarks show that Lu Xun had read and understood Poe ; in later years in one of his talks with an American friend he admitted that in his early years he had been influenced by Poe.
Lu Xun's knowledge of Poe is by no means limited to The gold bug, however. In one of his early essays, he remarked that "The black cat in Edgar Allan Poe's tale is really horrible". Later, in an introduction to Mark Twain's Eve's diary, he made a judicious comparison between Twain and other nineteenth-century American writers : Poe, Hawthorne, and Whitman. He pointed out that Twain was outwardly a humorist, but inwardly a misanthrope, although Poe, Hawthorne and Whitman did not, like Twain, "think in one way, but behave in another". He also noticed that American writers before the Civil War could easily keep their individualist features, but after the Civil War they had to adapt themselves to the social requirements of a highly developed capitalist system. These remarks show that Lu Xun had read and understood Poe ; in later years in one of his talks with an American friend he admitted that in his early years he had been influenced by Poe.
Mentioned People (3)
Lu, Xun
(Shaoxing, Zhejigan 1881-1936 Shanghai) : Schriftsteller, Dichter, Übersetzer
Übersetzungen japanischer Autoren siehe Findeisen, Raoul.D. Lu Xun (1881-1936).
Übersetzungen japanischer Autoren siehe Findeisen, Raoul.D. Lu Xun (1881-1936).
Poe, Edgar Allan
(Boston, Mass. 1809-1849 Baltimore, Md.) : Schriftsteller, Dichter
Twain, Mark
(Florida, Missouri 1835-1910 Redding, Conn.) : Schriftsteller
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
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| 1 | 1999 | Sheng, Ning ; Stauffer, Donald Barlow. The influence of Edgar Allen Poe on modern Chinese literature. In : The University of Mississippi studies in English ; N.S., vol. 3 (1982).[This article is adapted from the M.A. thesis by Mr. Sheng Ning for the Department of Western Languages and Literature of Peking University in 1981]. | Publication / Poe5 |
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