Escape and The Man Who Questions Death: Two Plays by Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian

March, 2007
Cloth, 200 pages,
ISBN: 978-962-996-308-8
The Chinese University Press
$25.00

Inspired by the author's personal trauma in Europe and Mao's China, these two plays scrutinize the psychology of self-proclaimed heroes and the consequences of dangerous revolutions that turn literature and art into hostages of politics, fashions, and trends.

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About the Author

Gao Xingjian is the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature, the first time the Prize had been awarded for a body of work written in the Chinese language. Gilbert C. F. Fong is currently professor and chairman in the Department of Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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