"Six Records of a Floating Life"

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This paper refers to the first chapter of Shen Fu's masterpiece, 'Six Records of a Floating Life' and how the author gradually describes his unique wife by small details and anecdotes. It grows clear that Shen Fu and Yun are artistic and even psychic personalities, not quite suited for secular survival. Shen Fu has given much thought to his early life with Yun, the omens to imply they will be parted, as they were by her death at the age of 40, and with the rest of his life a mere existence.

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"Shen Fu (1763- c.1809) wrote a most beautiful novel that explains his life's influence by his unique cousin who became his wife, Shen Yun, when both were young. Indeed, no one knows quite what became of Shen Fu, after the death of his wife in 1803, other than a few details, and work on his manuscript after which it tends to be assumed that he too died, c. 1809."

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