Fiction Beast | Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol and Lu Xun (2 short stories from Russia and China) @Fiction_Beast | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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In this video I will discuss two short stories with the same title, written a century apart, one in 1835 in Russia and the other in 1918 in China. Both authors went on to become the giant of their literature. Nikolai Gogol is considered a pioneer of prose fiction in Russia, long before Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, whose best known novel, the Dead Souls I discussed here in two of my Russian literature videos. Lu Xun too started a literary revolution in China that broke off from classical Chinese literature. In this video, I will summarise both stories and then discuss some of their themes and how they depicted each country.
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