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Original Title:	Lingshan
ISBN:	0060936231 (ISBN13: 9780060936235)
Edition Language:	English

Soul Mountain

Gao Xingjian

Paperback | Pages: 510 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 4188 Users | 495 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	Soul Mountain
Author	:	Gao Xingjian
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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Ratings: 3.59 From 4188 Users | 495 Reviews

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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

Why do you give yourself reading tasks? Why do you embark on a journey to read all Nobel Laureates in Literature? Over the years, reading all kinds of books by a wide range of different authors from all over the world, I asked myself that question quite often. Some laureates had been favourites for decades before I started the project, others were completely new to me, and some were even hard to find in bookstores. After I had finished Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain, I thought I had an answer to

No way. There are a few interesting anecdotes, but this is not a novel: it is utterly devoid of shape or meaning; there's not a blinking thing I can get behind or grab hold of to push myself past the 23% mark, which has taken me three months to get to. No way. I am out of here. Yay!

Beautiful writing, but I never could get very involved in the stories, perhaps due to the constant change in perspective in the narration.

Gao Xingjian is the first, and only, Chinese author to win the Nobel prize for literature, which he won in 2000. He's primarily a playwright, but he's written a couple of novels, and Soul Mountain was mentioned by the Nobel committee as his magnum opus and the primary cause for the award. Thus, if my quest is to explore Chinese fiction before my move, this is an obvious pick.In the early 1980s Gao -- who was already a semi-renowned literary figure and theater director in the underground art

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.

Exceptional. Beautifully done, peaceful and eternally grounded. Just to add there is violence in the book but the energy around the whole book is what I described.