Gao Xingjian

Soul Mountain

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, ‘Soul Mountain’ is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.

One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. But One Man's Bible is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph.

A Novel

One Man's Bible

A collection of six unforgettable stories from Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian. Dealing with Gao's trademark themes of relationships, family, the political scene in China and exploration of the self, these stories are by turns moving, beautiful and thought-provoking. With the exception of 'In an Instant', all the stories were written in China in the early 1980s and published in Chinese in a collection called Gei wo laoye mai yugan (Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather) by Lianhe Press in taipei 1989. 'In an Instant' was written in Paris in October 1990 but not published until 1996 in the collection Zhoumo sichongzhou, after Soul Mountain had been published in early 1990. this is the perfect first taste of the work of Gao Xingjian - short, sweet and highly accessible - something for those who have heard about the author but are unsure where to start.

Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather

Stories

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

Le Livre d’un homme seul croise les longues années chinoises et le présent, temps de l’exil d’un intellectuel qui témoigne de la force aliénante du passé, et de celle, salvatrice, de l'espoir.

Le Livre d'un homme seul

Xingjian Gao

La dulzura de los recuerdos y de la infancia, la violencia política, el amor y también el erotismo se mezclan en esta novela sorprendente de Gao Xingjian, resumen de la vida de un hombre solo y testimonio literario esencial y sublime.

El Libro de un hombre solo

When Gao Xingjian was crowned Nobel Laureate in 2000, it was the first time in the hundred-year history of the Nobel Prize that this honour had been awarded to an author for a body of works written in Chinese. His plays, novels and short fiction have undeniably won a victory for Chinese literature. Written between 1990 and 2002, these bold and extraordinary essays include Gao's Nobel Lecture, 'the Case for Literature', and embody his argument for literature as a universal human endeavour rather than one solely defined by national boundaries. the essays deal with history, politics, philosophy, archaeology, anthropology and linguistics, in addition to presenting Gao's innovative ideas on narrative and theatre aesthetics, and constitute the kernel of his thinking on literary creation.

The Case For Literature

Gao Xingjian is the leading Chinese dramatist of our time. He is also one of the most moving and literary writers for the contemporary stage. His plays have been performed all around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, the Ivory Coast, the United States, France, Germany and other European countries. Born and educated in China, Gao studied French literature at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute between 1957-1962. After the Cultural Revolution, he became a resident playwright at the Beijing People's Art Theatre. His works, including Bus Stop, Absolute Signal, and Wilderness Man, were trend-setting and have created many controversies and a wave of experimental drama in China. In 1987 he settled in Paris, France and continued to write in Chinese and in French. He was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1992. The present collection contains five of Gao Xingjian's most recent works: The Other Shore (1986), Between Life and Death (1991), Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), and Weekend Quartet (1995). One finds poetry, comedy as well as tragedy in the plays, which are graced by beautiful language and original imagery. Combining Zen philosophy and a modern worldview, they serve to illuminate the gritty realities of life, death, sex, loneliness, and exile, all essential concerns in Gao's understanding of the existence of modern man. The plays are also manifestations of the dramatist's idea of the tripartite actor, a process by which the actor neutralizes himself and achieves a disinterested observation of his self in performance.

Plays by Gao Xingjian

The Other Shore

La Montagne de l’Âme, le roman qui a valu à GAO sa notoriété et son prix Nobel, est désormais un classique de la littérature universelle. GAO entraîne le lecteur dans un vertigineux voyage initiatique à travers la Chine des années 1980, entre tradition millénaire et vestiges de la Révolution culturelle.

La Montagne de l'âme

Recordações de infância, as alegrias simples do amor e da amizade, a terra natal e os seus lugares familiares, mas também os dramas da rua ou as tragédias vividas pela China, são estes os temas destes seis contos escolhidos pelo autor. Com um imenso talento, Gao Xingjian brinca com estas imagens e com a sua escrita, leva-nos, como se nada fosse, a entrar nos seus sonhos mais íntimos - quer sejam os do rapazinho que se tronou adulto, de um jovem recém-casado perdido de amor ou de um nadador em risco de vida... Sorrisos e lágrimas atravessam esta leitura, que nos deixa o belo e suave sabor da emoção.

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