One Man's Bible - Couverture rigide

Xingjian, Gao

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0066211328 ISBN 13 : 9780066211329

Editeur : Harper, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Xingjian Gao

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty.

In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for the staging of one of his plays.

What follows is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Communist regime. Whether in "beehive" offices in Beijing or in isolated rural towns, daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, as revolutionaries, counterrevolutionaries, reactionaries, counterreactionaries, and government propaganda turn citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. Gao evokes the spiritual torture of political and intellectual repression in graphic detail, including the heartbreaking betrayals he suffers in his relationships with women and men alike.

One Man's Bible is a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph.

Revue de presse :

“Unforgettable ... One Man’s Bible burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling.” (New York Times)

“Perhaps the most powerful thing Gao has ever written.” (New York Review of Books)

“[Gao] paints a stark, unforgiving picture of the results of Mao’s regime and of the Cultural Revolution.” (Denver Post)

“Dreamlike .... elegant and haunting.” (Boston Globe)

“A remarkable achievement.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“450 brilliant pages of reflection, self-reflection and redemption.” (Ruminator Review)

“Conveys that profound sense of dislocation human beings can sometimes feel, when looks back on one’s own life.” (Baltimore Sun)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0066211328
• ISBN 13: 9780066211329
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 464