《狂人日记》最早发表在1918年5月的《新青年》杂志上,是中国文学史上的第一篇白话小说。这部作品共分为13个小章节,全文将近5000字。作品通过描写一个精神失常的人对于周围的人及事物的疑惑和妄自揣测,对中国的传统封建社会进行了猛烈的抨击。作品中的“我”的形象是一个有“迫害狂”的病人。在他眼中,周围的所有人都想要吃他,在这种心理的引导下,他的病情也变得越发严重。在这部作 “Diary of the Madman,” first published in May 1918 “New Youth” magazine, is the first Chinese vernacular novel in the history of Chinese literature. This work is divided into 13 small chapters, the full text of nearly 5000 words. By depicting the puzzling and arrogant suspicion of people and things around him by an insane man, the work has done a violent attack on China's traditional feudal society. The image of “I” in the work is a patient with “persecuting madness.” In his eyes, everyone around him wanted to eat him, and under such psychological guidance his condition worsened. In this work