Research Catalog

Title

The other shore : plays / by Gao Xingjian ; translated by Gilbert C. F. Fong.

Author

Gao, Xingjian.

Publication

Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Fang, Zixun

Description

xlii, 269 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

When Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, he became the only Chinese writer to achieve such international acclaim. The Chinese University Press is the first publisher of his work in the English language. Indeed, The Other Shore is one of the few works by the author available in English today. The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian contains five of Gao's most recent works: The Other Shore (1986), Between Life and Death (1991), Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), and Weekend Quartet (1995). With original imagery and in beautiful language, these plays illuminate the realities of life, death, sex, loneliness, and exile. The plays also show the dramatist's idea of the tripartite actor, a process by which the actor neutralizes himself and achieves a disinterested observation of his self in performance. An introduction by the translator describes the dramatist and his view on drama.

Uniform Title

Plays. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Plays.

Subject

Gao, Xingjian > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• List of plays by author and their reviews (p. [255]-265).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Other shore -- Between life and death -- Dialogue and rebuttal -- Nocturnal wanderer -- Weekend quartet.

ISBN

• 9622018629 (pbk.)
• 9622019749

LCCN

^^^00434046^

OCLC

• 45461107
• SCSB-10594068

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library