The Drunkard DRINKS/WINES and literary genealogy

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The Drunkard DRINKS/WINES and literary genealogyThe Drunkard is one of the first full length stream of consciousness novels written in Chinese. It has been called the Hong Kong Novel, and was first published in 1962 as a serial in a Hong Kong evening paper. As the unnamed Narrator, a writer at odds with a philistine world, sinks to his drunken nadir, his plight can be seen to represent that of a whole intelligentsia, a whole culture, degraded by the brutal forces of history: the Second Sino