Gao Xingjian: 4 books
by Gao Xingjian
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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...
One Man's Bible
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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...
by Gao Xingjian
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
These six stories by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian transport the reader to moments where the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory, are beautifully unveiled. In "The Temple," the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing...
by Gao Xingjian
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2012
El Premio Nobel Gao Xingjian nos ofrece en esta novela imprescindible una mirada lúcida al proceso de deshumanización que conllevó la Revolución Cultural en China.
Él es un hombre solo. Sin ideales, sin mujer, sin hijos. Está vivo y al fin es libre. Él mantiene silenciosas conversaciones...