Paperback. Pub Date :2010-05-21 192 English Harper Perennial From Chinas first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions. none of which has ever been published before in English . A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains. and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn day; a man reminisces about his beloved grandfather. who used to make his own fishing rods from lengths of crooked bamboo straightened over a fire ... Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia. these stories hum with simplicity and wisdom - and will delight anyone who loved Gaos bestselling novels. Soul Mountain and One Mans Bible.
Dans la Chine du début des années quatre-vingt, le personnage de la Montagne de l'Ame, simplement désigné par le pronom personnel " je ", entreprend un voyage pour fuir les tracas de la vie dans la capitale. Le hasard - deux tasses de thé qui s'entrechoquent sur la tablette du compartiment d'un train - le met sur la piste d'une mystérieuse montagne. Le roman entraîne dès lors le lecteur dans un immense voyage à travers une Chine mal connue, d'une richesse infinie : quête amoureuse et spirituelle, recherche des origines de l'homme et de la civilisation chinoise, recherche de la vérité, de la sagesse et de la pureté, retour à l'enfance. Au fil du récit, " je " devient " tu " et les deux voix alternent et s'entrecroisent pour former un texte d'une écriture résolument moderniste. Roman complet de la " sinitude " retrouvée, tour à tour autobiographique, récit picaresque ou burlesque, introspection, reflet critique de la réalité, poème lyrique..., la Montagne de l'Ame est le grand roman asiatique de cette fin de siècle.
When Gao Xingjian was proclaimed Nobel Laureate of Literature in 2000, it drew attention to his significant body of literary works that included a collection of short stories, titled Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather (1989), two autobiographical novels titled Soul Mountain (1990) and One Man's Bible (1999), as well as seventeen plays, three of which when performed in Beijing in the early 1980s, had turned him into an instant celebrity, not just in China, but internationally. His plays Absolute Signal (1982), Bus Stop (1983), and Wild Man (1986) were well known in the English- speaking world soon after their publication in Chinese. However, when his next play, The Other Shore (1986), was banned after a few rehearsals, he relocated to Paris in 1987. His play Escape (1990) about the 4 June 1989 military crackdown on student protesters in Tiananmen Square, resulted in a "virtual ban" on his writings, which could no longer be published, sold, or performed in the People's Republic of China. This meant that both the author and his works had been airbrushed out of existence, and that Gao Xingjian research would find it impossible to take root in China. Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics demonstrates the extensive reach of Gao Xingjian's transcultural, transdisciplinary and transmedia explorations. Showcased here is the panoramic aesthetics of a polymath who has successfully personified modern-time renaissance by projecting the struggles of the individual's inner landscape into vivid images on stage, film, black-and-white paintings, and in the multilayered narrative expressions of fiction and poetry, even dance and music, to evoke a sense of sincerity and authenticity that penetrates a viewer/reader's heart. The volume is divided into four parts: philosophical inquiry; transdiscipline, transgenre, transculture; cine-poems with paintings, dance and music; and identifying and defining the self. The chapters probe different aspects of Gao Xingjian's work, bearing testimony to their diverse specializations
