Wandering

by Lu Xun, Yang Xianyi (Translator), Gladys Yang (Translator)

Pub 2015-3-1 188 Swallow Press. Wandering is the second collection of short stories of Lu Xun. the total income from 1924 to 1925 made eleven novels. in addition to lonely and Regret for the Past Two unpublished outside alone. before the other nine chapters have collected and published in Beijing and Shanghai. magazines and newspaper supplements. Wandering writing period. a time when fifty-four ebb. New Culture Movement differentiation within the camp. the author side because became ronin. not front the cloth and lonely. desolate. side past experiences. Find new comrades. to deploy a new battle. In this context the advent of Wandering than its first collection of short stories. The Scream . the technology although better than the previous. seems relatively unfettered thought. And the will to fight. but a lot of cold. In 193...

Genres: Fiction, China, Literature, Classics, Chinese Literature, Short Stories, Asia

143 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1926

About the author

Lu Xun (鲁迅) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.

- For the Traditional Chinese profile: 魯迅
- For the Simplified Chinese profile: 鲁迅

Reviews

[Yinxue · Rating 4 out of 5]

在一个对的年纪重读这个人。放下一切解读的声音，辟除所有迷信和崇拜。鲁迅是个灰色的人，故事有好也有不够好。有不少读来像断篇，没有结尾，嘎然而止。并不觉得是刻意而为，并不认为达到了什么深度戏剧效果。但难忘“伤逝”和子君。不论涓生是不是鲁迅，我只知道好的故事只能从本身而生。还是喜欢他的字，读的下去，可以沉静。

[吕不理 · Rating 4 out of 5]

前一阵读卡夫卡的时候总是感觉像鲁迅 冰冷的触感细腻又锋利啊 喜欢的

[Marei · Rating 4 out of 5]

I could not live a life further from 1920s China, but humans are humans and at times the plot of the characters lives was like a daytime soap. The gritty ones with blue lighting and off beat dramatic pauses.

[Bob · Rating 2 out of 5]

"I'm not sure" is a most useful phrase.

So says the protagonist of The New-Year Sacrifice, the first story in Wandering, Lu Xun's 1926 short story collection; and I'll have to say that I wholly agree with him. In fact, I may be inclined to employ this most useful phrase to describe my feelings on the book itself.

I'm not sure about Wandering.

Lu Xun tells stories differently than other authors I've read. Each one has a very basic story line, with no frills whatsoever. They're vague, oddly translated, and more often than not go nowhere. To get any pleasure out of them requires searching for their artistically embedded meanings, often mistily displayed through human examples. The themes and feelings explored throughout include grievance, indecision, confusion, tradition and duty. It seems to me that each was put across rather carelessly, and I'm not really sure what kind of effect Lu Xun was going for, or if even he knew what effect he was going for.

My copy of Wandering is printed on slightly glossy paper, and at night, as I read by the light of my bedside lamp, parts of the pages, due to the moderate shininess of the paper, would be slightly obscured by a kind of gleaming reflection of the lamp's light. This resulted in me having to adjust how I held the book in order to see everything on the page, and I feel as if this obscuring of text somewhat reflects my overall reading experience. I felt a niggling annoyance that I was missing something, like these stories were actually much more interesting and thought-worthy than I understood, but that I wasn't fully comprehending Lu Xun's subtle concerns and intonations. Maybe something was lost in Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang's murky translation, or maybe I'm just a blithering ignoramus, of which the latter is highly likely. Nonetheless, I can't say I got much out of these stories.

[Scaffale Cinese · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Esitazione" raccoglie undici racconti che Lu Xun ha composto a Pechino nel biennio 1924-1925 e pubblicato nel 1926. Si tratta di: Sacrificio di Capodanno, Alla locanda, Una famiglia felice, Il sapone, La lampada della vita eterna, Pubblico ludibrio, Il professor Gao, Il solitario, Cordoglio, Fratelli, Divorzio.
Filo conduttore della raccolta sono l’incertezza dell’esistenza, la crisi individuale e valoriale che caratterizza il tempo in cui vive Lu Xun e che si riflette nei protagonisti dei suoi racconti, in bilico tra passato e presente, conservazione e cambiamento. Pessimismo e desolazione permeano i racconti, che hanno un tono nettamente diverso da quelli della precedente raccolta.

[kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is all about some small issues that happens around the author. he gave a lot of details to them to make them so vivid and realistic. by just reading these words you can picture a clear image of what happen at the scent. it give you such a big impact as you think about they happened a 100 years ago. their stupidity and avarice, their greed and numb, it all touch you the deepest part of your heart. i glad the we are moving on, though i do believe things like that still happen from time to time, i just hope it will get less and less.

[Lordoftaipo · Rating 5 out of 5]

《彷徨》的故事選角有時出現犬儒，大抵是反映世風。畢竟比《吶喊》寫晚了幾年，時間晾久了，自然有更多人懷疑當初革新的用意。找遍通書上下不見一篇讚美，都是熱血過的中年人各種面向，有的投誠、有的歸隱、有的遷怒、有的順受。

似乎想著想著，不知不覺捉摸到為什麼上一本叫《吶喊》，這一本叫《彷徨》。較往後的日子就是魯迅也蒼然暮色，他救國熱心未熄是一回事，人再號叫總會嘶啞。想動下一口氣之際，每覽不爭氣的國人，毋寧嚥下一口氣罷就。之所以那麼多壯志未酬的角色，無不與他當時心境有關。

不過諷刺文章總是欺負作家的，那個無聲年代需要的今天已經氾濫。舊時都是文盲，要突圍一個魯迅不易，今天出一個公認的魯迅同樣難。幼稚見解不知凡幾，所以諷刺文章又是欺負讀者的。我不是為了印證「一蟹不如一蟹」，而是看出魯迅造文內外兼具。

[Yixue Lou · Rating 4 out of 5]

鲁迅的作品，虽然今天看来已经是直白得不能更直白的“醒世录”，但对于二十世纪二三十年代的人来说，或许还是有些门槛的，至少不是任何人拿起来都能读得懂的吧？他要叫醒的不是那些装睡的人，也不是那些睡得太沉的人，而是那些半梦半醒，似睡非睡的“新青年”。

这些作品放在特定的时代背景下，对当时的中国甚至东亚而言都有很大的贡献。但我也赞同王朔的评价：“鲁迅的小说写得确实不错，但不是都好，没有一个作家的全部作品都好，那是扯淡。而且，说鲁迅的小说代表中国小说的最高水平，那也不是事实”。鲁迅最伟大的成就或许确实不是小说，只是借着小说为载体，这种成就才得以实现了。：）

[Sgd1995 · Rating 5 out of 5]

《示众》最妙。不论其象征意义和对所有“看/被看”结构文章的纲领作用，不论其独有的特别的格式，仅凭其对人物的描写，氛围的烘托，就足以令人叹服。

[Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

《彷徨》（中）鲁迅。

有些看了以后还去找了相关解读的文章看。

[Pakwai_Chan · Rating 3 out of 5]

魯迅先生的小說作品數量不多，意義卻十分重大。魯迅把目光集中到社會最底層，描寫這些底層人民的日常生活狀況和精神狀況。這些小說擅用小人物反映真社會，以小故事影射真事件。作品擅用諷刺手法，語言詼諧幽默，鏗鏘有力，擲地有聲，發人深省。總之，或尖銳批判，或潑辣諷刺，或熱情贊美，或疾呼吶喊，無一不體現了其登峰造極的文學水平。 《徬徨（插圖典藏本時代經典）》收錄了《徬徨》和《故事新編》兩部作品。

[katykatywong · Rating 5 out of 5]

好幾篇文章讀完後竟不知何意，連忙網上搜尋再次理解。所謂大師，從蛛絲馬跡見尋到人性的醜陋處，用劍一般的文字直插心底！但痛擊之後，大部分人仍難以改變。感謝偉大的魯迅先生帶我見識炎涼世態。痛定思痛，我需要藉此機會自我革新。

[Lee Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

彷徨比呐喊更加深沉，作者“像一匹受伤的狼，当深夜在旷野中嗥叫，惨伤里夹杂着愤怒和悲哀。”

[Yuke Liu · Rating 5 out of 5]

《示众》的水平太高了，就像是一个电影镜头一样把整个场景如此细致地展现出来。《彷徨》是鲁迅全集中选择阅读的第一部分，但是是把鲁迅对于社会与人的这一层深刻展示的最好的一本。

[庆忌 · Rating 5 out of 5]

祝福、肥皂、孤独者。
然后昨天，原则居家第二季开始了。

[EJing Zheng · Rating 5 out of 5]

《孤独者》看的哭的跟傻逼一样 也写太好了 可能配着白水的歌也是有一定功效
所以基础教育的时候真的有人看得懂鲁迅吗？
文笔很好，流畅丝滑动态

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Angelo Montinovo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recente traduzione dei racconti del grande scrittore cinese moderno.

[Jialiang Liu · Rating 5 out of 5]

四周是广大的虚无和死的寂静

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

最好的依旧是《祝福》和《孤独者》，意外收获是《伤逝》，爱情故事也如此之好。

[Yifan Dai]

Finished on 9/21,22,or 23

[haryii · Rating 5 out of 5]

better than Outcry

[Swandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

no one logs chinese books here and i want to change that

[zz Ss · Rating 4 out of 5]

苦命的乡下女人的一生

[Levi Wong · Rating 5 out of 5]

可是我那时不知怎地，将她的一生缩在眼前了，亲手造成孤独，又放在嘴里去咀嚼的人的一生。

引自其中最喜歡的一篇「孤獨者」

[Haley · Rating 4 out of 5]

honestly learned a lot and my fav story was 肥皂

[Celine Chang · Rating 4 out of 5]

鲁迅的书有点难懂，慢慢来吧

[Susanna Beltrame · Rating 4 out of 5]

Peccato per una traduzione un po' obsoleta... attendo di rileggere questi racconti in una traduzione aggiornata!

[Lại Mai]

it's good

[Lucia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciate what the author was trying to say in this book about class, poverty and inequality, but the writing style just wasn't my favorite and I found it a bit of a slog.