Gao Xingjian





Gao Xingjian

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born
January 04, 1940 in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China

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Gao Xingjian is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, and painter. An émigré to France since 1987, Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.


Average rating: 3.47 · 1,729 ratings · 286 reviews · 24 distinct works
Soul Mountain
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 1,224 ratings — published 1989 — 39 editions
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One Man's Bible: A Novel
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1999 — 20 editions
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My...
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions
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The Case for Literature
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Snow in August
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Return to Painting
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Contra los ismos
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Auf Dem Meer
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Letteratura e ideologia
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“With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.”
Gao Xingjian

“Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.”
Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain

“You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.”
Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain

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