老舍小说在上个世纪已被译成日、英、法、德、俄、捷克、波兰、匈牙利、瑞典和朝鲜等多种文字、蜚声中外文坛。20世纪80年代初,竹中伸、日下恒夫和田孝昭等人翻译的《老舍小说全集》共16卷,由日本学研出版社出版发行。这套《全集》包括老舍先生早期的成名作,1926年发表的《老张 In the last century, Lao She’s novels have been translated into Japanese, English, French, German, Russian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Swedish and North Korean and other languages. In the early 1980s, a total of 16 volumes of The Complete Works of Lao She’s Novels, translated by Takeshita Husaka, Tian Xiaoshao and others, were published and published by Japan’s Academic Press. This “Complete Works” includes Mr. Lao She’s early fame, published in 1926, "Zhang