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Jin Shengtan, caratteri cinesi: 金聖歎 , in origine Jin Cai , è stato uno scrittore, editore e critico letterario cinese. vissuto tra la fine della dinastia Ming e l'inizio della dinastia Qing.



A lui si deve la migliore edizione critica del romanzo I Briganti.

Critico letterario, pensava di scrivere un'edizione critica di ciascuna delle Sei opere del genio .

Metteva nello stesso piano le opere in lingua classica e quelle in lingua volgare.

Muore decapitato nel 1661, per aver sostenuto degli studenti che protestavano contro un ufficiale governativo corrotto. Wikipedia  

✵ 1610 – 1661
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Jin Shengtan: Frasi in inglese

“To have just finished repaying all one's debts. Ah, is this not happiness?”

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"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”

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"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open the window and see the beautiful sun shining and glistening and the forest looks like having a bath. Ah, is this not happiness?”

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"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“As I write, a bee flies into my window and an ant crawls along the balcony. The ant and the bee are enjoying their present temporary life even as I am enjoying my temporary existence. When I become an "ancient one," so too will the ant and the bee become an "ancient bee" and an "ancient ant." What mystery and what joy that I should be living today at this hour by this place before this window with pen, inkstone, and paper spread before me, while my mind thinks and my hand writes in the company of the present bee and the present ant!”

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"What Can I Do About It?"

“Wasting one's time is one way of occupying it, not wasting time is also another way of occupying it, and not to mind going on wasting time even knowing that it is a waste of time is also another way of occupying it. … I have well understood life, and therefore I can do what I naturally want to do. To do what I naturally want to do is also a way of occupying time.”

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"What Can I Do About It?"

“It seems that in writing a composition, one must first have in mind a reason for writing. If there is a reason behind it, no matter what one writes about, it will turn out to be excellent writing. If there is no reason behind it, there is no way to write. Even if one can produce something, it will be as dry and unpleasant as chewing wax.”

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"How to Read the Shui-hu chuan", § 26; in How to Read the Chinese Novel (1990), ed. David L. Rolston, p. 137

“I wake up in the morning and seem to hear some one in the house sighing and saying that last night some one died. I immediately ask to find out who it is, and learn that it is the sharpest, most calculating fellow in town. Ah, is this not happiness?”

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"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“In making these comments, my motive is really not to go to all the trouble for the sake of the ancient author, but because I feel I have an obligation to the future readers and wish to do something about it.”

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"What Can I Do About It?"

“To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?”

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"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“A traveller returns home after a long journey, and he sees the old city gate and hears the women and children on both banks of the river talking his own dialect. Ah, is this not happiness?”

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"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?”

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"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut.”

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Last words of Jin Shengtan, "contained in a sealed letter to his family as he went to his execution, as a joke upon the magistrate", as quoted and reported by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Understanding (1960), p. 468

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