Bøger af Gao Xingjian

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 thrown back into the world of the living.Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled first to the ancient forests of central China and from there to the east coast, passing through eight provinces and seven nature reserves, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is 'Soul Mountain'.Interwoven into this picaresque journey are myriad stories and countless memorable characters - from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; deadly Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare.

"Precisely detailed and delicately suggestive: the best work of Gao's yet to appear in English translation."--Kirkus ReviewsA collection of six exquisite short stories from Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. These beautifully translated stories take as their themes the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory. In "The Temple," the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing with his new wife on their honeymoon. In "The Cramp" a man narrowly escapes drowning in the sea, only to find that no one even noticed his absence. In the title story the narrator attempts to relieve his homesickness only to find that he is lost in a labyrinth of childhood memories.Everywhere in this collection are powerful psychological portraits of characters whose unarticulated hopes and fears betray the never-ending presence of the past in their present lives.

"Courageous ... One Man's Bible is driven by the sweeping panorama of history and the suffering and reconciliation that underlie it."-- Washington Post Book WorldPublished to impressive critical acclaim, One Man's Bible enhances the reputation of Nobel Prize-winning Gao Xingjian, whose first novel, Soul Mountain, was a national bestseller.One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the oppressive totalitarian regime of Mao Tse-tung during the period of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Whether in the "beehive" offices in Beijing or in isolated rural towns, daily life everywhere is riddled with paranoia and fear, as revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and government propaganda turn citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. Gao evokes the spiritual torture of political and intellectual repression in graphic detail, including the heartbreaking betrayals he suffers in his relationships with women and men alike.One Man's Bible is a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and how the human spirit can triumph.

Gennem fire tekster får vi et indblik i de mange forskellige temaer og udtryksmåder i moderne kinesisk dramatik.Nobelpristageren Gao Xingjians skuespil "Ballade nocturne" skildrer kønsspillet i det patriarkalske samfund. Performanceteksten "Digtning – min krop" af debutanten Yue Yuan udtrykker fremmedgørelsen over for ens egen krop. "Digtning – Annie" er ligeledes en performancetekst af Xiao Jing, som fortæller om racismen i det kinesiske samfund, og hvilket medansvar man har, når man som vidne ikke griber ind. Skuespillet "En drøm og en skål hirsegrød" af dramatikeren Huang Ying er baseret på en gammel kinesisk myte om en fattig studerende, der gennemlever hele livet i løbet af én drøm.Gritt Uldall-Jessen (f. 1970) er en dansk dramatiker og forfatter. Hun er uddannet dramatiker fra Dramatikeruddannelsen på Aarhus Teater og cand. mag i dansk fra Københavns Universitet.Jun Feng aka Jimbut (f. 1965 i Shanghai, Kina) er digter, romanforfatter, oversætter og dramatiker. Han er bachelor i matematik fra Shanghai Normal University i Kina. Han kom til Danmark som FN-flygtning. I Danmark er han uddannet som mag.art. i filosofi på SDU. Jun Feng har oversat og udgivet 10 af Søren Kierkegaards værker i Kina samt en del danske digte, romaner og dramatik til kinesisk, bl.a. Johannes V. Jensens "Kongens Fald" og Benny Andersens digte.Sidse Laugesen er mag.art. og skønlitterær oversætter fra kinesisk. Hun har oversat adskillige romaner og digte, bl.a. Yu Hua "Brødre" og Liao Yiwu "Massakre". Seneste udgivelse er Can Xue "Kærlighed i et nyt årtusind" på forlaget Korridor 2021. Hun har gennem årene arbejdet med at formidle ny kinesisk poesi på dansk og publicerer via nettet og i tidsskrifter. Desuden skriver hun på kinesisk og har publiceret digte i flere online-tidsskrifter.

A novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of international bestseller 'Soul Mountain'. 'Unforgettable. "e;One Man's Bible"e; burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling.' New York TimesMoving between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution and the tentative, limited liberties of the China of the 1990s, 'One Man's Bible' weaves memories of a Beijing boyhood and amorous encounters in Hong Kong with a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the communist regime - where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. A fluid, elegant exploration of memory, This novel is a profound meditation on the essence of writing and exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit - and on how that spirit can triumph.

Based on the ancient text "The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhai jing)", this play enacts the classical world of Chinese mythology, traversing the creation of humans to the beginning of Chinese dynastic history. It features a world of magical powers and child-like wonderment, peopled with gods, ghosts, ghouls, and monsters.

From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English.