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Una obra escrita desde el alma y destinada a permanecer en la historia de la literatura. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2000Sinopsis: Una casualidad inicia esta novela: dos tazas de té entrechocan sobre la mesa de un compartimento de tren provocando el contacto entre dos desconocidos que han emprendido un largo viaje. Desde las primeras páginas Xingjian hace un retrato amplio y profundo de China, de su gente, de sus costumbres, de su forma de vida. ... Read more

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the new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of international bestseller Soul MountainThe unnamed narrator of this book recalls his Beijing boyhood, his tenth birthday, the death of his grandfather, the accidental drowning of his mother and the effect all this trauma had on the frail, sensitive young boy he was then. He then pulls us forward in time to view the sexually active adult he has become, engaged in a series of difficult relationships, in constant trouble with the Chinese authorities, and in danger of being marked out as a 'counter-revolutionary'. The book moves between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution insanities of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the tentative, limited liberations of the 1990s, and the narrator moves between China, Hong Kong, Paris and Frankfurt. Through it all throbs an overwhelmingly powerful sense of the past, distant and near, and a moving and unprecedented insight into the character of modern China.* Gao has his narrator say of the book's purpose: 'Your writing is not in the cause of pure literature, but you're also not a fighter using your pen as a weapon to promote right, moreover you don't know what's right.You know you're certainly not the embodiment of right and you write simply to indicate that a sort of life worse than a quagmire, more real than an imaginary hell, more terrifying than the judgement of the last day has existed. Furthermore, it's highly likely that after people have forgotten about it, it will make a comeback, and people who've never gone crazy will go crazy again, and people who've never been oppressed will oppress or be oppressed. This is because madness has existed since the birth of humanity.' ... Read more

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Chinese ink painting
Gao Xingjian was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. Besides the evidence of greatness in literature, he is an artist in Chinese ink painting and in other art forms.The book under review grew from his art exhibition of twenty-seven brushstroke paintings in black and white held in 2007 at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. These paintingsare ofnon-representational, non-conceptual images and are accompanied with bilingual essays that Mabel Lee translated into English.These essays illuminate the artistic aim of Mr. Gao and his method of painting, whichcombines Chinese calligraphy and Western impressionism.The essay "Maree de Soir" urges the reader/viewer to note the lack of perspective, of up or down, ofbalance, and of references and the presence of "images [...] clear and distinct..."Another essay points out the filmic textures of pictures, which were derived from the application of several inks with varying trace minerals mixed with water.The effect of this application is to create seemingly moving images that affect a sense of tranquillity as is experienced in one's listening to music. On page 138, he says, "My painting would be described as a sort of inner vision, contemplation, hallucination or image of the mind."The visual results of his linear brushstrokes and tranquil observation are a fresh perception and sensation. ... Read more

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Title: Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian.
Author: Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76Issue: 2Page: 135(2)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Charles K. Kao, Roger Y. Tsien, Steven Chu, Gao Xingjian, Tsung-Dao Lee, Yuan T. Lee, Chen Ning Yang, Samuel C. C. Ting, Daniel C. Tsui, List of Ethnic Chinese Nobel Laureates. Excerpt:This is a Chinese name ; the family name is Kao ( ) . : This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters . Charles Kuen Kao Charles Kuen ("K. C.") Kao CBE FRS FREng (traditional Chinese : ; simplified Chinese : ; pinyin : G o K n (Kao Kuen); born November 4, 1933) is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications . Kao, widely regarded as the " Father of Fiber Optics " or " Father of Fiber Optic Communications " , was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for " groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication ". Biography Kao was born in Shanghai in 1933, but his ancestral home is in Jinshan , Jiangsu now part of Shanghai. He studied Chinese classics at home with his brother, under a tutor. He also studied English and French at an international school in Shanghai which was founded by a number of progressive Chinese educators including Cai Yuanpei . Kao's family moved to Hong Kong in 1948 where he completed his secondary education (advanced level ) at St. Joseph's College in 1952. He did his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at Woolwich Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich ), obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree issued by the University of London . He then pursued research and received his PhD degree in electrical engineering in 1965 from University College London (under Professor Harold Barlow ) as an external student while working at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories (STL... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : J. M. G. le Clézio, André Gide, Alexis Carrel, Anatole France, Gao Xingjian, Henri Becquerel, Sully Prudhomme, Romain Rolland, Henri Bergson, Saint-John Perse, Charles Nicolle, Albert Camus, Maurice Allais, Aristide Briand, François Mauriac, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Marie Curie, Claude Simon, Albert Schweitzer, Louis de Broglie, René Cassin, Pierre Curie, Luc Montagnier, Frédéric Mistral, François Jacob, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Léon Bourgeois, Jean Perrin, Gabriel Lippmann, Georges Charpak, Victor Grignard, Albert Fert, Gérard Debreu, Charles Richet, Roger Martin Du Gard, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Ferdinand Buisson, Henri Moissan, Jacques Monod, Paul Sabatier, Louis Néel, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Irène Joliot-Curie, Liste Des Français Lauréats Du Prix Nobel, Jean Dausset, Léon Jouhaux, Alfred Kastler, Jean-Marie Lehn, Frédéric Passy, Yves Chauvin, André Frédéric Cournand, Roger Guillemin, Paul Henri Balluet D'estournelles de Constant, André Lwoff, Louis Renault. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : André Gide est un écrivain français, né le 22 novembre 1869 à Paris, où il est mort le 19 février 1951. Volonté de liberté et d'affranchissement à l'égard des contraintes morales et puritaines, son œuvre s'articule autour de la recherche permanente de l'honnêteté intellectuelle : comment être pleinement soi, jusqu'à assumer sa pédérastie et son homosexualité, sans jamais démériter à l'égard de ses valeurs. Né dans une famille de la grande bourgeoisie protestante, partageant sa vie entre Paris et la Normandie, André Gide se découvre différent des autres et assume à partir de 1893 son homosexualité lors d'un voyage en Afrique du nord. Passé par la Suisse pour soigner son état nerv...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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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 6430 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: THEATRICAL IMPULSE AND POSTHUMANISM.(dramatic works of Gao Xingjian)
Author: Yin Haiping
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 75Issue: 1Page: 20

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