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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 ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V. on March 2, 2008. The length of the article is 410 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nada tiene que ver el arte con la polîtica: Gao Xing-jian.
Author: Marco Aurelio Carballo
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 2, 2008
Publisher: Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V.
Volume: 54Issue: 2855Page: 98(1)

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 5366 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: THE CASE FOR LITERATURE THE 2001 NOBEL LECTURE.
Author: Gao Xingjian
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 75Issue: 1Page: 4

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