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Gao Xingjian - One Man’s Bible - 9780007142415 - KKD0001886
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One Man’s Bible

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Description for One Man’s Bible Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of international bestseller ‘Soul Mountain’. ‘Unforgettable. “One Man’s Bible” burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling.’ New York Times

The unnamed narrator of this book recalls his Beijing boyhood, his tenth birthday, the death of his grandfather, the accidental drowning of his mother and the effect all this trauma had on the frail, sensitive young boy he was then. He then pulls us forward in time to view the sexually active adult he has become, engaged in ... Read more

Gao has his narrator say of the book’s purpose: ‘Your writing is not in the cause of pure literature, but you’re also not a fighter using your pen as a weapon to promote right, moreover you don't know what’s right. You know you’re certainly not the embodiment of right and you write simply to indicate that a sort of life worse than a quagmire, more real than an imaginary hell, more terrifying than the judgement of the last day has existed. Furthermore, it’s highly likely that after people have forgotten about it, it will make a comeback, and people who’ve never gone crazy will go crazy again, and people who've never been oppressed will oppress or be oppressed. This is because madness has existed since the birth of humanity.’

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007142415
SKU
KKD0001886
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian was born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, and has lived in France since 1987. Gao is considered an artistic innovator in his native China, both in the visual arts and in literature. He is that rare multi-talented artist who excels as a novelist, playwright, essayist, director and painter. Two novels, the internationally best-selling ‘Soul Mountain’ ... Read more

Reviews for One Man’s Bible
‘Brilliant and poetic, keen and original…Gao has written a book drenched in the political turmoil in China. But his ambition is to transcend the specifics of time and place, to write a meditation on literature itself and its ability to reveal the raging, brutal, brilliant beast that is mankind…“One Man’s Bible” burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for One Man’s Bible


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