关键词: 鲁迅, 《狂人日记》, 翻译, 写实主义, 科幻诗学, 真实

Abstract: This article attempts to present new interpretations of Lu Xun's “A Madman's Diary” from perspectives of literary history, poetics of science fiction, and rethinking about realism. The article reveals three relations between Lu Xun's story and science fiction: some important clues demonstrate connections between Lu Xun's early translations of science fiction and his later fiction writing; “A Madman's Diary” has a profound impact on Chinese new wave science fiction writers in terms of both the theme and style; rereading “A Madman's Diary” from the perspective of science fiction also helps us reflect on the relations between realism and literary imagination. The counter-intuitive discourse of science fiction dismantles the literary conventions and attempts to rebuild the knowledge about what is real. If we read “A Madman's Diary” as science fiction, the structural alterations happening to this text corresponds to the foregrounding of the question of the virtual when the “ordinary reality in front of eyes” is put into brackets. These alterations also echoed a series of drastic changes happening in the fields of science, aesthetics, and literature against the larger historical backdrop of Lu Xun's time. Through relating new materials to rewriting literary history as well as through outlining a new poetics of narrative fiction, this article aims to inspire new approaches to thinking about literary representation, realism, and episteme.

Key words: Lu Xun, “A Madman's Diary”, translation, Realism, poetics of science fiction, literalness