Other Shore: Plays by GAO Xingjian - Textbook - Paperback - First Edition - 1999 - from Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB and Biblio.com

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Gao Xingjian, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, lists European avant-garde drama among his influences, which can be felt in the plays collected in this volume. THE OTHER SHORE (1986), BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH (1991), DIALOGUE AND REBUTTAL (1992), NOCTURNAL WANDERER (1993), and WEEKEND QUARTET (1995), presented here in English translations, poetically combine traditional Zen principles with a modern sensibility. Gao's themes include loneliness, exile, sexuality and the poles of life and death. The plays here display Gao's theoretical conception of "the tripartite actor," in which the performer is able to meaningfully observe himself in the course of the play.

Other Shore: Plays

by GAO Xingjian

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Book desription: Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. Near Fine. 1999. Paperback. 9622018629 . Translated from the Chinese by Gilbert C. F. Fong. First edition (paperback). About fine in printed wraps. .

Bookseller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 27261
Format/binding: Paperback
Book condition: Near Fine
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 9622018629
ISBN 13: 9789622018624
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Place: Hong Kong
Date published: 1999
Pages: 269
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 x 0.75 inches
LCCN: PL2869.O128A24 2000
Dewey: 895.1246
Weight: 1 pounds
Keywords: DRAMA, Chinese Literature, TRANSLATION, Nobel Prize,
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General;

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