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Author:

Gao, Xingjian.

Title:

The case for literature / Gao Xingjian ; translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

181 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Literature--Philosophy.
Gao, Xingjian.
Gao, Xingjian.
Littérature--Philosophie.

Other Authors:

Lee, Mabel.

Notes:

List of author's publications: p. 167-176.

Contents:

Introduction: contextualising 2000 Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian by Mabel Lee -- Author's preface to Without isms -- The case for literature -- Literature as testimony: the search for truth -- Without isms -- Cold literature -- Literature and metaphysics: about Soul mountain -- The modern Chinese language and literary creation -- About Fleeing -- The voice of the individual -- Wilted chrysanthemums -- Another kind of theatre -- The necessity of loneliness.

ISBN:

0300136269 (pbk.)
9780300136265 (pbk.)
030012421X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300124217 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006933452

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word Seminary - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)