Gao Xingjian- Soul Mountain
Short Review:
In 1983,
Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was
diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a
second examination revealed there was no cancer—he had won "a second
reprieve from death.
" Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the
threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of
15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in
southwest China. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain.
Bold,
lyrical, and prodigious, Soul
Moutain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and
candor and delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of
the individual self
.
About
The Author:
Gao
Xingjian
: born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic
who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ..., screenwriter, stage
director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French
citizenship.
Gao's
drama is considered to be fundamentally absurdist in nature and avant-garde in
his native China. His prose works tend to be less celebrated in China but are
highly regarded elsewhere in Europe and the West.
Product Details
- Paperback: 510 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1 Reprint edition (October 23, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060936231
- ISBN-13: 978-0060936235
- Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.2 x 8 inches
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