Гао Синцзянь — библиография

From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English.A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains, and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn day; a man reminisces about his beloved grandfather, who used to make his own fishing rods from lengths of crooked bamboo straightened over a fire…Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia,…

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, ‘Soul Mountain’ is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of 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. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer – he had won a ‘reprieve from death’ and had been…

From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English.A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains, and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn day; a man reminisces about his beloved grandfather, who used to make his own fishing rods from lengths of crooked bamboo straightened over a fire…Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia,…

В пьесе есть элемент абсурда: все действие происходит в ожидании автобуса, который так и не приходит. Но это не создание абсолютно новой реальности в стиле С.Бекетта, хотя с драматургией этого драматурга, в особенности с его «В ожидании Годо», часто сравнивают «Автобусную остановку», да и сам Гао Синцзянь говорит о влиянии на него его предшественника — также нобелевского лауреата. Это скорее гипербола, более близкая гоголевскому «Ревизору». Если «Автобусная остановка» и абсурд, то это абсурд, происходящий на вполне конкретном общественном фоне социалистического Китая начала 80-х годов ХХ века (что придает пьесе уникальный колорит) и…