Gao Xingjian

One Man's Bible

Experimental autobiography interweaving theater and personal testimony across decades

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Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian

Chinese-French novelist, playwright, and artist who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. Soul Mountain is a vast, formally innovative meditation on Chinese culture, nature, and individual freedom written after his diagnosis with cancer.

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