by Gao Xingjian · Editions de l'Aube · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782876785380
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«Le livre d'un homme seul» is the novel by Gao Xingjian, published by Editions de l'Aube in paperback (485 pages, in French).
An exiled Chinese playwright and a young German Jewish woman recognize each other through the marks they carry on their bodies. From silence and the unsaid, and from the encounter between the lovers, the memory of a terrifying life is born: the protagonist recalls the purges of Mao's regime, its violence, and also the flight and hope.
Translation from Chinese by Noël and Liliane Dutrait; original title Yī gè rén de shèngjīng (1999). French edition published in 2000. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize in 2000.
For readers of contemporary fiction and historical fiction centered on Mao's China.
Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
