Soul Mountain by by Gao Xingjian: Summary and reviews.
Gao Xingjian Playwright, critic and novelist, Gao Xingjian is a prominent leader of the avant-garde movement in fiction and drama that began in the wake of the Cultural Revolution in China. “Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence (Xingjian 1).” Communist China tried to suppress Gao’s works throughout his whole career. Gao.Gao Xingjian’s novel, Soul Mountain, is about a similar wandering. It is about a man, an intellectual, a writer, an anthropologist, whose mission is to collect folk culture all around him. In reality, he just wanders around, traveling wherever fate sends him.Gao Xingjian was born in 1940 in the province of Jiangxi, where he spent his childhood. In 1962, he graduated as a French language specialist from the Beijing Foreign Language Institute. He joined.
The elusive Lingshan (Soul Mountain) becomes the object of his quest. A novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty. In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian (pronounced gow shing-jen) was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.Soul Mountain gives the reader the essence of what Gao Xingjian refers to as “cold literature”. Gao Xingjian’s pronouns are truly what Roland Barthes would call “paper-beings” who would not develop into full-fledged characters such as Hamlet or Quixote with real passions and burning desires.
Soul Mountain is a novel by Gao Xingjian. The novel is loosely based on the author's own journey into rural China, which was inspired by a false diagnosis of lung cancer. The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan.
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