Download Gao Xingjian Soul Mountain Pictures. 'arguably gao's finest work… soul mountain is a quirky, thick, playful monster of a book, a bit like what one might expect if beckett or ionesco had traveled in china and been steeped in chinese myths. Soul mountain is a novel by gao xingjian.

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Copyright (c) 1990 by gao xingjian. In 1983, chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter gao xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.but six weeks the result of this epic voyage of discovery is soul mountain. It is recorded in the late qing dynasty work annals of yunyangfu that in this forest running 800 li from north to south, all day.

Born in 1940 in jiangxi province in eastern china, he earned a degree in french in beijing, and embarked on a life of letters.

The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain lingshan. 'arguably gao's finest work… soul mountain is a quirky, thick, playful monster of a book, a bit like what one might expect if beckett or ionesco had traveled in china and been steeped in chinese myths. The narrator explores rural villages and reflects on the influence that the cultural revolution has had. Long is the roaring of tigers and the screeching of apes.