Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings - Michael Lackner - Books - de Gruyter - 9783110346428 - May 13, 2014
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Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings

Michael Lackner

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Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings

Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: thereare affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

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Released May 13, 2014
ISBN13 9783110346428
Publishers de Gruyter
Pages 271
Dimensions 155 × 230 × 20 mm   ·   517 g
Language English  

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