Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian (高行健, pinyin: Gāo Xíngjiàn; born January 4, 1940), is a Chinese emigré novelist, dramatist and critic, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is also a noted translator, stage director and painter. Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, he is now a French citizen. In 1992 he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Although the general position by the Chinese media and government towards Gao is silence, the Yangcheng Evening News, a state-run newspaper, in 2001, during a criticism of his novel Soul Mountain, called him an "awful writer", and that the idea of him winning the Nobel Prize, was "ludicrous". The Chinese government officially regards Gao as an exiled dissident, and all of his works are banned.

Selected works

• 寒夜的星辰 ("Constellation in a Cold Night", 1979)
• 现代小说技巧初探 ("A Preliminary Examination of Modern Fictional Techniques", 1981)
• 绝对信号 (Signal Alarm, 1982)
• 车站 (Bus Stop, 1983)
• 野人 (Wild Men, "Savages", 1985)
• 有只鸽子叫红唇儿 ("Such a Pigeon called Red Lips", 1984) - a collection of novellas
• 彼岸 (The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian , 1986)
• 给我老爷买鱼竿 ("A Fishing Rod for my Grandpa", 1986) - a short story collection
• 灵山 (Soul Mountain, 1990)
• 没有主义 (Without -isms, "No Ideology", 1995)
• 一个人的圣经 (One Man's Bible, 1998)

Works of Gao Xingjian in German

• • The bus station: a lyric comedy from the VR China by Chang and Wolfgang Kubin Hsien chen. - Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1988.
  • Escape: a modern tragedy by Helmut Forster Forster-Latsch and Marie Marie-Luise Latsch. - Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1992. - [ appendix: Escape and literature of Gao Xingjian ]
  • At the border between life and death by Marks of Renné// booklet for East Asian literature. NR 13 November 1992.
  • Yeren: Tradition and avant-garde in Gao Xingjian's play "The Wild Ones" (1985). by Monica Basting- Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1988. - ( Includes the text in the original Chinese and in German)
  • Hard man, Sascha, and/or NO (1992): a drama of Gao Xingjian . - Bochum: Project publishing house, 1999.

Literature

• • Trees on the Mountain: an Anthology of New Chinese Writing by Stephen C Soong and John min Ford. - Hong Kong: The Chinese U.P., copilot 1984.
  • Gao Xingjian, le moderniste // La Chine aujourd'hui NO 41, September 1986.
  • World Literature with Chinese Characteristics: On A Novel by Gao Xingjian by Torbjoern Lodén, // Stockholm journal of East Asian Studies 4, 1993.
  • Chinese Writing and of exiles by Gregory B. Lee - Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, 1993.
  • Gao Xingjian, the Voice of the Individual // Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies, 6, 1995.
  • Without Politics: Gao Xingjian on Literary Creation by Mabel Lee // Stockholm journal OF East Asian Studies 6, 1995.
  • Pronouns as Protagonists: Gao Xingjian's Lingshan as Autobiography by Mabel Lee// Colloquium of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics at the University of Sydney. Draft Paper, 3-4 Oct. 1996.
  • Personal Freedom in Twentieth Century China: Reclaiming the Self in Modernism and the Chinese Writer by Mabel Lee, // Heat 4, 1997.
  • Gao Xingjian, le peintre de l'âme by Robert Calvet, // Brèves NO 56, more hiver 1999.
  • Towards A Modern Zen Theatre: Gao Xingian and Chinese Theatre Experimentalism. Henry Y.H. Zhao, - London: School OF Oriental and African Studies, 2000.