Su Tong 
Novels Lighten up Souls 

As sentimental and sophisticated as his works, Su Tong’s notes are as exquisite and broad. On his reading graph, Su Tong has illustrated works by Italo Calvino, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Manmohan Singh, Milan Kundera among other western authors, while interpreting productions by Zhou Zuoren, Nieh Hualing, Wang Anyi, Chi Zijian among other Chinese writers. In addition, he made comments on 8A1/2 , La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini, while holding original views on short novels. All those articles are compiled into this book for the first time so as to share with readers.