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One man's bible

One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty. "One Man's Bible" is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. But "One Man's Bible" is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph. In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for the staging of one of his plays.

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  • "One man's bible"
  • "Yige ren de shengjing"@es
  • "Yi ge ren de sheng jing"
  • "Yigeren de shengjing"

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  • "A fictionalized account of the author's life under Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution describes how the political climate of Beijing rendered his home one of perpetual fear for its citizens."
  • "Xingjian Gao's novel moves between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution insanities in the China of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the tentative, limited liberalizations of the 1980s and 1990s."
  • "Une dénonciation du système totalitaire chinois. A travers les conversations d'un personnage avec une jeune femme allemande et juive sont évoqués l'éveil au monde puis le contact avec la barbarie, les souffrances, les déchirures, débouchant sur une réflexion en profondeur aussi bien sur l'homme que sur les tragédies que la Chine a connues au cours de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle."
  • "One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty. "One Man's Bible" is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. But "One Man's Bible" is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph. In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for the staging of one of his plays."@en
  • "One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty. "One Man's Bible" is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. But "One Man's Bible" is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph. In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for the staging of one of his plays."
  • "<One Man's Bible</ is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state.</ But <One Man's Bible</ is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph.</"@en
  • "Gao Xingjian's fictionalized memoir of his youth captures the anxieties of the Cultural Revolution. As a writer, and the son of a white-collar worker, the narrator realizes that he is vulnerable to investigation by the Red Guard. Punishment for offences could be death, imprisonment, or banishment to a labor farm. The only way to survive, was to construct a mask of bland agreement with whoever was in charge at the time. His recollections are spurred when, after long exile from China, he is brought to Hong Kong to stage one of his plays. Here he has a short affair with a German-Jewish woman, Margarethe, whom he knew slightly in China. For Margarethe, survival hinges on memory. It is she who persuades the narrator to let his painful memories begin to thaw, and if not to drop his mask, at least to remember that he is wearing one."@en

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  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Political fiction"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Čínské romány"
  • "Translations"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction, Chinese"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Chinese fiction"

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  • "Le livre d'un homme seul"
  • "One man's bible"
  • "One man's bible"@en
  • "El libro de un homre solo"
  • "一個人的聖經"
  • "Et ensomt menneskes bibel : roman"@da
  • "Et ensomt menneskes bibel : roman"
  • "Aru otoko no seisho"@ja
  • "Aru otoko no seisho"
  • "Kinh thánh của một người"
  • "One man's bible : a novel"@en
  • "One man's bible : a novel"
  • "Le livre d'un homme seul : roman"
  • "Bible osamělého člověka"
  • "ある男の聖書"
  • "Le Livre d'un homme seul"
  • "One Man's Bible"
  • "一个人的圣经"
  • "Yige ren de shengjing"
  • "El libro de un hombre solo"
  • "El libro de un hombre solo"@es
  • "Yalnız bir adamın kitabı : [roman]"
  • "Das Buch eines einsamen Menschen : Roman"
  • "El llibre d'un home sol"
  • "El Libro de un hombre solo"
  • "One man's Bible : a novel"
  • "나혼자만의성경"
  • "Le livre d'un homme seul roman"
  • "One man's Bible a novel"@en
  • "En ensam människas bibel"@sv
  • "En ensam människas bibel"
  • "Il Libro di un uomo solo"
  • "Das Buch eines einsamen Menschen Roman"
  • "Il libro di un uomo solo"@it
  • "Il libro di un uomo solo"
  • "Yi ge ren de shengjing"
  • "One man's Bible"@en
  • "One man's Bible"
  • "Yi ge ren di sheng jing"
  • "Yi ge ren de sheng jing = one man's bible"
  • "Yigeren de shengjing"
  • "Yi ge ren de sheng jing"
  • "El Llibre d'un home sol"@ca
  • "Na honja man ŭi sŏnggyŏng"

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