Description
“Unforgettable … One Man’s Bible burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling.” (New York Times )
“Perhaps the most powerful thing Gao has ever written.” (New York Review of Books )
“[Gao] paints a stark, unforgiving picture of the results of Mao’s regime and of the Cultural Revolution.” (Denver Post )
“Dreamlike …. elegant and haunting.” (Boston Globe )
“A remarkable achievement.” (Christian Science Monitor )
“450 brilliant pages of reflection, self-reflection and redemption.” (Ruminator Review )
“Conveys that profound sense of dislocation human beings can sometimes feel, when looks back on one’s own life.” (Baltimore Sun )
“Perhaps the most powerful thing Gao has ever written.” (New York Review of Books )
“[Gao] paints a stark, unforgiving picture of the results of Mao’s regime and of the Cultural Revolution.” (Denver Post )
“Dreamlike …. elegant and haunting.” (Boston Globe )
“A remarkable achievement.” (Christian Science Monitor )
“450 brilliant pages of reflection, self-reflection and redemption.” (Ruminator Review )
“Conveys that profound sense of dislocation human beings can sometimes feel, when looks back on one’s own life.” (Baltimore Sun )
Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
