/lit/ - Literature

My father's favorite short story is Lu Xun's Upstairs in the Tavern and it's is equal in quality to some of the stories in Dubliners i m o. It feels strange remarking that even with his encyclopedic knowledge of Chinese lit his favorite Western novels are Tom Clancy books. Mark of a true patrician I guess. Incidentally in his youth he was a fan of translated Maxim Gorky and Mikhail Sholokhov, and you can probably guess why. He still likes Doctor Zhivago as he says it's similar to A Dream of Red Mansions