- Taschenbuch: 464 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Perennial; Auflage: American. (16. September 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060936266
- ISBN-13: 978-0060936266
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 691.933 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In the same circling, ruminative vein as his Nobel Prize-winning debut novel Soul Mountain, Chinese expatriate Gao Xingjian's fictionalized memoir of his youth, One Man's Bible, is an attempt to capture the Kafkaesque anxieties of the Cultural Revolution. As a budding writer, and the son of a white-collar worker, the unnamed narrator soon realizes that, no matter what useful friends he makes at school, he is vulnerable to investigation by the restless, politically unstable Red Guard: "Enemies had to be found; without enemies, how could the political authorities sustain their dictatorship?" Punishment for real or imagined "mistakes" of thought and behavior would have been death, imprisonment, or banishment to a labor farm. The only answer, he came to believe, was to blend in with the masses and to construct a mask of bland agreement with whoever appeared to be in charge at the time.
The bulk of Xingjian's absorbing narrative takes place in this bleak world of exposure, hysteria, and reprisals, and from an appropriately distant third-person point of view. But the act of recollection is spurred by a four-day-long affair with a near-stranger in the mid-1990s. The narrator, long exiled from China, has been brought to Hong Kong to help stage one of his plays. Here he runs into a German-Jewish woman, Margarethe, whom he knew slightly from his final years in China. For Margarethe, survival hinges on memory. It is she who persuades the narrator to let his painful, rigorously suppressed memories begin to thaw, and if not to drop his mask, at least to remember that he is wearing one. --Regina Marler -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Nobel prize winner Gao follows up his highly praised Soul Mountain with another autobiographical work, first published in Taiwan in 1999. Beginning in 1996 Hong Kong, before its handover to China, the book follows the author on a journey back in time to the heart of that country during the Cultural Revolution. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, the novel vacillates between the past and the present. Readers learn of the writer's marriage, his love/hate obsession with women and sex (which is tinged with a slight Oedipus complex), and, most of all, what it's like to live under a repressive regime. Like other fictional accounts of life during this period by authors such as Anchee Min, Ha Jin, and Pu Ning, the book is pervaded by a sense of dread and a fear of discovery. The continual changes in setting and Gao's liberal shifting from second to third person, mixed with a sprinkling of dialog throughout, add to the novel's complexity and make it a difficult work. But perhaps this is a result of the translation. Only academic and public libraries that had demand for Gao's American debut will want to consider adding this title. Shirley N. Quan, Orange Cty. P.L., Santa Ana, CA
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Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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I picked up One Man's Bible because it sounds quite different than those female-suffereing-in-china-kind of books that I used to read. And it mentioned Hong Kong, where I came from. So I thought I would give it a try.
The sex is quite erotic and sometimes rude. But behind all the sex and womanising, the book is trying to be philosophical in a man's battle to stay sane during the cultural revolution.
Sometimes I enjoy the chapters. Sometimes I am just bored. And confused with the different ways the stories are being told.
The book jacket says the writer is not trying to be judgemental. But I disagree. His pages are all full of sufferings and he repeatedly said he would never visit China again.
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Gao's second novel published in Europe, „One Man's Bible", is more political and provocative than its predecessor „Soul Mountain". The author creates a certain feeling of loneliness within an uncaring world in which the protagonists suffers from the hard times of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in China.
I recommend this book (450 pages) because auf the historical authenticity and the excellent writing style of Nobel Price receiver Gao Xingjian, who manages to write a novel which is suspenseful on one hand, and intelligent on the other.
I recommend this book (450 pages) because auf the historical authenticity and the excellent writing style of Nobel Price receiver Gao Xingjian, who manages to write a novel which is suspenseful on one hand, and intelligent on the other.
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Gao's latest novel is way better than his predecessor "Soul Mountain". Mainly due to its more down-to-earth style.
Gao tells his story with many time leaps between the present and the past. The parts in the past especially those in the cultural revolution give the western reader a good insight into everyday life during this chaotic period.
Gao tells his story with many time leaps between the present and the past. The parts in the past especially those in the cultural revolution give the western reader a good insight into everyday life during this chaotic period.
recommended to everyone interested in newer chinese history and to just anyone who likes to read very well-crafted and intelligent novels.
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