One Man's Bible - Softcover

Xingjian, Professor Gao

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060936266 ISBN 13: 9780060936266

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2003

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2003-9-1 Pages: 450 Publisher: Audio Delivery One Mans Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjians life under the Chinese Communist regime Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear. and government propaganda turns citizens against. one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. But One Mans Bible is also 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 About the author :. Gao Xingjian (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China. he. has lived in France since 1987. Gao Xingjian is an artistic innovator. in both the visual arts and literature. He is that rare multita...

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One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state.

But One Man's Bible is also 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.

Review:

"A remarkable achievement." -- Christian Science Monitor

"Dreamlike .. elegant and haunting." -- Boston Globe

"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

"A remarkable achievement."--Christian Science Monitor

"Dreamlike .... elegant and haunting."--Boston Globe

"450 brilliant pages of reflection, self-reflection and redemption."--Ruminator Review

"[Gao] paints a stark, unforgiving picture of the results of Mao's regime and of the Cultural Revolution."--Denver Post

"Conveys that profound sense of dislocation human beings can sometimes feel, when looks back on one's own life."--Baltimore Sun

"Unforgettable ... One Man's Bible burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling."--New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060936266
• ISBN 13: 9780060936266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450