Bücher von Xingjian Gao

Includes 50 images, with a large number of paintings from Gao Xingjian's private collection.Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 for a body of literary works originally written and published in Chinese and later translated and published in English, French, and Swedish. Gao's plays have been performed in even more languages on the stages of Asia, Europe, United States, Africa, and Australia. He is also recognized as a painter of international significance; in 2015 his six-panel work The Awakening of the Consciousness became the sole permanent display of a designated room in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. His extraordinary creative achievements draw on his innate talents but also on his profound knowledge and understanding of the creative arts of China and the West.Born 1940 in China, Gao Xingjian graduated from the Foreign Languages Institute (now renamed Beijing Foreign Studies University) with a major in French and then lived through the horrors of the Cultural Revolution. He became a celebrity playwright and literary critic during the early 1980s until the Chinese authorities banned his works. In 1987 he traveled to Europe and by early 1988 settled in Paris, where he began to write and to paint. Today most of his major writings have been published in different languages and his plays continue to be staged all over the world. In addition, there have been ninety solo exhibitions of his Chinese ink paintings that have been held in Asia, Europe, and the United States, and some fifty books have been published on his art.In Calling for a New Renaissance, Gao presents his primary concerns of the past decade or so. He indicts the lingering impact of ideology on contemporary literature and art, and for this reason calls for "a new Renaissance," a result of which would be "boundary-crossing creations" such as the three cine-poems that he produced and describes in detail in this book. Of importance in this book, and not documented elsewhere, Gao offers his insights on how, despite receiving his education in the People's Republic of China, he succeeded in educating himself in both Chinese and world literatures because of his love of reading and his disciplined approach to reading. This book also includes fifty images selected by Gao, forty-five of which are his favorite paintings from his private collection.Calling for a New Renaissance is a valuable resource for academic researchers, students, and general readers interested in Gao Xingjian, transcultural studies, transdisciplinary studies, and transmedia studies.See also Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation by Gao Xingjian and Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics edited by Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei.

Hongkong zur Zeit der chinesischen Kulturrevolution. Durch die leidenschaftliche Liebe zu einer deutschen Jüdin wird der Erzähler zur Auseinandersetzung mit seiner schwierigen Heimat China gezwungen. Ein farbenprächtiges Wechselspiel von Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit und Jugend, dem Wunsch nach Vergessen und einem neuen Leben entsteht. Fragen über seine chinesische Identität, die Emigration und die Bewältigung traumatischer Erfahrungen durch politischen Terror sowie die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen literarischen Schreibens, aber auch seine zahlreichen Liebesbeziehungen bilden den Kern des sinnlichen und zugleich reflektierten Romans. Ein beeindruckendes Buch von zarter melancholischer Stille, eine überwältigende Sichtung des unbekannten China.

Der Berg der Seele ist der große autobiographische Roman des Nobelpreisträgers Gao Xingjian. Den Fluss Yangtze hinab von der Quelle bis ans Meer führt ihn eine epische Reise in das Herz eines unbekannten China. 1983 diagnostiziert ein Arzt bei Gao Lungenkrebs und gibt ihm nur noch wenige Monate. Dies stellt sich bald als falsch heraus und mit dem Gefühl, dem Tod durch Finger geschlüpft zu sein, beschließt er, der sich abzeichnenden politischen Repression in der Hauptstadt zu entgehen. Lingshan, der von Legenden umwobene Berg der Seele, wird zum Fluchtpunkt einer Reise, auf der er die leuchtenden Farben einer vom offiziellen Peking an den Rand gedrängten Welt entdeckt. Unterwegs wie Bruce Chatwin in Australien ist er auf der Spur einer anderen, einer sinnlichen Geschichte, begegnet er weisen Frauen, skurilen Helden und den letzten Schamanen.

Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian is amongst the most challenging writers of the present era. He has probed the dynamics of Chinese and European literature and developed unique strategies for the writing of seventeen plays, two novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of poems. He has also written two collections of criticism. The present collection takes the title Aesthetics and Creation from the name of the Chinese collection from which most of these essays are drawn, but it also includes some of Gao's most recent unpublished essays. University of Sydney academic Mabel Lee is the translator, and the book also includes her authoritative introductory essay that contextualizes Gao's significant position as an independent and uncompromising voice in the noisy hype of the globalized world of the present in which creative writers and artists are forced to conform with the demands of political and other group agendas, or with market forces, in order to survive. In incisive and cogently argued essays, he exposes the political dynamics of so-called "modernity" in Western literature and art, and how this has been enthusiastically embraced in China since the 1980s. In other essays he analyses traditional and modern European and Chinese notions of fiction, theatre and art, and elaborates on what aspects of writers and artists from both cultures have informed him in developing his own aesthetics in narration, performance and the visual arts. These essays testify to the extent of the cosmopolitanism of his aesthetics that both informs and are manifested in his literary and art creations. This book has importance and relevance to the general reader with an interest in literature and art as a creative human pursuit that is not demarcated by national or cultural boundaries. This book is both indispensable and inspiring reading for intellectuals and informed readers who regard themselves as citizen of the world. For academics, researchers and students engaged in the disciplines of literature and visual art studies, world literature studies, comparative literature studies, performance studies, theatre studies, cultural studies, narrative fiction studies, and studies in the history of literature and the visual arts in modern times, this book is essential and thought-provoking reading that will have many positive outcomes.This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (General Editor: Victor H. Mair).