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| Original Title: | Lingshan |
| ISBN: | 0060936231 (ISBN13: 9780060936235) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Gao Xingjian
Paperback | Pages: 510 pages Rating: 3.59 | 4188 Users | 495 Reviews
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| Title | : | Soul Mountain |
| Author | : | Gao Xingjian |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 510 pages |
| Published | : | October 23rd 2001 by Harper Perennial (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. China. Literature. Asia |
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In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer -- he had won "a reprieve from death." Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain. Bold, lyrical, and prodigious, Soul Mountain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor and delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of the individual self.Rating Epithetical Books Soul Mountain
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I feel decidedly guilty and 'unliterary' giving a negative review of this book, but it just was not for me. It's a meditation on identity, and his writing is certainly innovative and probably the best way to explore the subject, but it made the book a long slog for me. The fact that someone talks about a woman being raped nearly every chapter (of which there are 80) was also something that made this read a difficult one for me. Glad I read it, glad it's over.It throes me, the content, the soul of the author and the struggling people. Now that we're here, but it's still so far away...all the mistakes one life contains, all the struggle we fought was in vain...they all finally start to fade awayI can get purified from reading it and obtain more from it whenever I scatter my eyes on and imprint my fingers in the pages, so why don't you give it a shot?What a beautifully written book of a mastermind, and it's still being banned in Chinkland for sure, it
Id like to start with a view that dissents with those of some other reviewers, who (in praise, often) claim that this book works outside the rules of fiction, or is unlike all other books, or isnt even a novel. Of course it is a novel, and a hyperliterary one at thatand it operates within structures of fictional form that are common (even commonplace) in the twentieth century, not to mention in earlier works that share some of its more astonishing features (such as Don Quixote). And Gao got a
Beautiful writing, but I never could get very involved in the stories, perhaps due to the constant change in perspective in the narration.
Another book that I've been tyring to read for several months. I have tried this one and found it is not for me. Life is too short, moving onto a different read that I hope I will enjoy.
What is it with mountains? Be they Bare, Magic or Soulful like this, they exert a pull on the soul and they move men to poetry. Equating height with Homeric majesty, Keats stood his Cortez silent upon a peak in Darien, to tug his conquistadors soul towards some higher sublimity. Where Christianity has the abode of God and attendant angels reposing in the celestial crenelations of cumulonimbus and nimbostratus, Homer grounded realist that he was, had his on semi-earthly Olympus. Not for nothing
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