4 books by Gao Xingjian
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Overview: GAO XINGJIAN (b. 1940) is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, and painter. He was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama." An émigré to France since 1987, Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997.
Genre: Fiction > Literature
Aesthetics and Creation (.PDF)
A collection of essays in which Gao exposes the political dynamics of so-called "modernity" in Western literature and art, and how this has been enthusiastically embraced in China since the 1980s. In other essays he analyses traditional and modern European and Chinese notions of fiction, theatre and art, and elaborates on what aspects of writers and artists from both cultures have informed him in developing his own aesthetics in narration, performance and the visual arts.
Ink Paintings, 1983-1993 (.PDF)
The catalogue accompanying an exhibition of Gao’s art at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, in 2003.
The Other Shore (.ePUB/.MOBI)
Contains five plays: "The Other Shore" (1986), "Between Life and Death" (1991), "Dialogue and Rebuttal" (1992), "Nocturnal Wanderer" (1993), and "Weekend Quartet" (1995). 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.
Snow in August (.ePUB/.MOBI)
A play based on the life of the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. Packed with the myriad sights and sounds of both the Eastern and Western theatrical traditions, the play exudes wonder and mysticism, and affords the audience fascinating vignettes of Gao’s vision of life and existence — an awareness of the Void and the need for a personal peace with oneself.
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