by Gao Xingjian · Contemporary French Fiction · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757804513
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«Le livre d'un homme seul» is the novel by Gao Xingjian, published by Points in paperback (576 pages, in French).
The narrator, a Chinese playwright in exile, evokes his youth in China during the Cultural Revolution and the terror of Mao's purges. In the European present, an encounter with a young German Jewish woman and the memory of past scars articulate a reflection on memory, solitude and flight. The work weaves the denunciation of the regime with the intimate account of a man marked by uprootedness.
Novel translated from Chinese by Noël and Liliane Dutrait. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000. The original title, «Yī gè rén de shèngjīng», was published in 1999. Number 1843 in the Points collection.
For readers of contemporary Chinese literature and Nobel authors seeking a novel with a strong historical and political backdrop.
Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
