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Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.” He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), 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.






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Soul Mountain

Gao Xingjian - Publisher : HarperCollins 

The first of the two characters to be introduced is You. He is described as a local tourist – not that sort of tourist but a backpacking one wearing strong sensible sports shoes and a backpack with shoulder straps. He seeks out the elusive Lingshan, a sacred mountain.You has long lived in the city, but yearns for a rural existence from the past. He shuns the idea of settling for a peaceful and...
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During a travel

Winter

To my sister or brother

Not easy to read

Contemporary

Less than 10$

At least one month






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