/lit/ - Literature

>>14361793
For me, it's The Dark Road by Ma Jian.

>some anon requests Chinese literature recommendations
>tell anon about all these cool Chinese novels from the 20th and 21st century that nobody ever talks about
>anon responds "Thanks I'll just start with the four great classical novels that I already knew about and didn't need to make a recommendation thread for, also I probably won't actually read them because they're 2000 pages long and won't make any threads about them in the future
Can we have a real Chinese literature thread?

>>13245681
The Dark Road by Ma Jian.

>>13213501
you may not like MBDTF, To Pimp a Butterfly, or Blackstar but they will be remembered
An Elephant Sitting Still will make the Sight & Sound Top 250 within several decades and there has been a metric SHIT TON of art house movies made in the 2010s
a decade without notable literature is still better than the 400s AD or the 500s AD where literally nothing in the entire world was written worth talking about

but even then I nominate The Dark Road by Ma Jian as the pinnacle of literature produced during the 2010s

>>13202044
For me, it's the Dark Road by Ma Jian. The novel about the misogynist last descendant of Confucius rebelling against the PRC by trying to impregnate his wife, but the PRC keeps forcing her to get abortions until finally one of the fetuses decides to just stay inside the womb for five years.

>>12967324
Have you read The Dark Road? I can vouch for The Dark Road's quality, which deals with similar subject matter, but I haven't read Frog yet.

>>12837681
>>12838117

Let's get this out of the way: my list has niggers and women in it. Alright, now that that's taken care of:

The Human Stain (2000)
Blonde (2000)
The Corrections (2001)
2666 (2004)
No Country for Old Men (2005)
Wizard of the Crow (2006)
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006)
Beijing Coma (2008)
The Pale King (2011)
NW (2012)
The Dark Road ( 2013)
Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013)
Bleeding Edge (2013)
A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)
The Underground Railroad (2016)
The Nix (2016)

The 21st century isn't really that bad.