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be my thesis that in Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian attempts to redefine Chinese identity by journeying to the depths of Chinese consciousness and that his encounters with ven- erable elders, who appear as the keepers of Chinese wisdom, are central to this quest.
These events of 1983 form the autobiographical substance of Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom. Gao Xingjian’s brush with death had dislodged many forgotten fragments of his past and he recaptures these as well as his emotional experience of confronting death in Soul Mountain. Keeping his
Gao Xingjian wrote Soul Mountain, which in this English translation is over 500 pages long, between 1982 and 1989. The year 1982 was precisely when the Chinese literary world was beginning to lose interest in both the "scar literature" (shanghen wenxue) of the late 1970s, which detailed the wrongs of the Cultural
modern-day China. In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs.
Comparing Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain with certain modernist works by Shen Congwen, this essay finds startlingly similar literary themes, tech-niques, strategies, and philosophies. And the exotic, southern, aboriginal, or multiethnic Chinese culture in both men's works finds precedent in the Songs of the South.
This essay analyzes Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain (Ling shan 1990) and Wuhe’s The Remains of Life (Yusheng 1999) and their reflections on history and what lies beyond or outside of history.
Soul Mountain. Farida Chishti. With the key objective to contest the grand narrative of Chinese home as a seat of Confucian order and harmony, this paper intends to explore home as a tyrannical site in the novel Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, the Chinese self-exile writer in France.
Soul Mountain By Gao Xingjian ISBN: 9780060936235 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature IntroductionA man is diagnosed with lung cancer -- precisely the same cancer that had proved deadly to his father not long before -- and then is surprised to discover in a follow-up visit to the doctor that he is in fact perfectly healthy.
Soul Mountain is a picaresque novel of immense wisdom and sparse beauty, bursting with knowledge and experience and portraying a culture as vast and fascinating as the history of humankind itself. In China in the early eighties, the book's
Gao Xingjian‟s Soul Mountain is an autobiographical novel in its depiction of the story of a wandering man who takes a journey in search of the self and its relation to the collective.
Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain implicitly dismantles, by way of deconstructing the ultimate goal of life, Hegel's teleological account of history and the dominant discourse about life's meaning in Mao's China.
offers an interpretation of Soul Mountain as a miniature of China‟s experience with and symbolic. expression of various “styles of truth” in its long and complex history of establishing and losing. social and political order. Additionally, this author‟s approach to the vast subjects of China‟s.
Gao Xingjian presents aesthetic portrayals of his life in the companion novels Soul Mountain and One Man’s Bible, and the autobiographical is also present to varying degrees in his works for the theatre.
From Soul Mountain to One Man’s Bible, Gao Xingjian’s fiction is committed to a labour of transgressive remembering: excavating minority heritages eclipsed by the dominant culture, protecting individual memory from established historiography, and sounding the dark areas of personal memory, less to indulge in “repentance” than to examine identity.
Soul Mountain is a fictionalised autobiography superimposed upon a documentation of two traumatic and interrelated events in Gao Xingjian’s life: his being targeted for criticism at a time when the memory of the persecution of writers during the Cultural Revolution was still palpable, and his being wrongly diagnosed as having lung cancer.
This study explores the persistent and concrete expression of Romantic attributes borne in the apparently Postmodernist Chinese novel named ‘Lingshan’ and is translated as Soul Mountain: a gigantic piece of art by a Chinese writer, Gao Xingjian.
Gao Xingjian, best known for his 1990 novel (Lingshan Soul Mountain ), won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000, becoming the first recipient to have written his works in Chinese.
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neously Confucian. His long novel Lingshan (Eng. Soul Mountain) is the perfect example. Instead of questioning the impact of totalitarian Communist rule on the indi-vidual, Gao elevates the focus of examination to the level of individual versus collective in the con-text of dominant Confucian tenets versus margin-alized cultures.