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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

2009-10-13 Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-13
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Book Synopsis Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by : Gao Xingjian

Download or read book Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather written by Gao Xingjian. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Precisely detailed and delicately suggestive: the best work of Gao’s yet to appear in English translation.”—Kirkus Reviews A collection of six exquisite short stories from Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. These beautifully translated stories take as their themes the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory. In “The Temple,” the narrator’s acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing with his new wife on their honeymoon. In “The Cramp” a man narrowly escapes drowning in the sea, only to find that no one even noticed his absence. In the title story the narrator attempts to relieve his homesickness only to find that he is lost in a labyrinth of childhood memories. Everywhere in this collection are powerful psychological portraits of characters whose unarticulated hopes and fears betray the never-ending presence of the past in their present lives.

Buying a fishing rod for my grandfather

2015
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Release : 2015
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Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)

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Ink Dances in Limbo

2008-07-01 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2008-07-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 211/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ink Dances in Limbo by : Jessica Yeung

Download or read book Ink Dances in Limbo written by Jessica Yeung. This book was released on 2008-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering study of the entire written works of Gao Xingjian (高行健), China's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jessica Yeung analyses each group of his writing and argues for a reading of Gao's writing as a phenomenon of "cultural translation": his adoption of Modernism in the 1980s is a translation of the European literary paradigm; and his attempt at postmodernist writing in the 1990s and 2000s is the effect of an exilic nihilism expressive of a diasporic subjectivity struggling to translate himself into his host culture. Thus Dr Yeung looks at Gao's works from a double perspective: in terms of their relevance both to China and to the West. Avoiding the common polarized approaches to Gao's works, her dual approach means that she neither extolls them as the most brilliant works of contemporary Chinese literature eligible for elevation to the metaphysical level, nor dismisses them as nothing more than elitist and misogynist mediocre writings; rather she sees this important body of work in a more nuanced way. This book is suitable for all readers who are interested in contemporary Chinese culture and literature. It is particularly valuable to students who are keen to engage with the issue of contemporary China-West cultural relationships.

冷的文學

2005 Drama
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Release : 2005
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 456/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis 冷的文學 by : 高行健

Download or read book 冷的文學 written by 高行健. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gao Xingjian, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature, approaches his writing with a strong conviction of the purity of literature and its dignity as art. The result is what he calls "Cold Literature", personal, detached, apolitical and antipathetic to noisy slogan-mongering writing; yet this literature also manages to be compelling and engaging with the strongest cogency." "The present anthology contains many gems of Gao's works. It presents an all-round picture of Gao and his many talents - novelist, playwright, poet, painter, and theorist - and takes the reader into a world that is uniquely Gao's, the quest for the self and its salvation, the depth of his understanding of the tragedy of modern man and ultimately, the dignity of being human." "Cold Literature brings together for the first time two English translators of Gao Xingjian's works, Gilbert C. F. Fong and Mabel Lee. Some of the translations in this collection are newly produced, and others have been revised, so that the beauty and musicality of Gao's language are revealed in Chinese as well as in English."--BOOK JACKET.

Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings

2014-06-23 Philosophy
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Release : 2014-06-23
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings by : Michael Lackner

Download or read book Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings written by Michael Lackner. This book was released on 2014-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

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