as individuals, comes from our interaction with the outside world. Grandparents, parents, friends, and even complete strangers all help to underwrite in the decisions we make, as well as help shape the life in which we live in on a daily basis. Gao Xingjian, author of “The Temple”, takes us on a passage in understanding the want for personal growth, freedom and fulfillment. Sometimes the author leaves us guessing, giving us the opportunity to deduct what was going on, based on our own knowledge. The
dramatist, director, critic and artist Gao Xingjian. Soul Mountain was a beautiful book and a portrait of physical as well as spiritual journeys. It is not a light book. The first one-third part of the book is rather engaging and enjoyable but the second one-third part of the book is dense and confusing. Overall it is a sort of book that needs a year on reading. Soul Mountain is a novel but it contained all such things, which a novel is not supposed to have. Gao already knew that this unconventional
are as individuals, comes from our close personal relationships. Grandparents, parents, friends, and even complete strangers all help to contribute in the decisions we make, as well as help shape the reality in which we live in on a daily basis. Gao Xingjian, author of “The Temple”, takes us on a journey in understanding the desire for personal growth, freedom and fulfillment. Sometimes the author leaves us guessing, giving us the opportunity to deduct what was going on based on our own knowledge.
'there is the man who knows the exact number of stars in the sky. If you have any trouble on that account consult him. He will be your night guide for the skies'.' Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. (Gao Xingjian. Soul Mountain) [1] R K Narayan propagates Oriental philosophy in all his novels and The Guide [2] is no exception. In Hindu philosophy realisation of the truth comes after going through the acid test of illusion or 'maya'.* I would add that
Five Dragons in to fill the space left by the father of the family. References Kang-i Sun Chang, Stephen Owen. The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 2010. Tong, Su. Rice: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2004. Xingjian, Gao. Soul Mountain. HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. Yan, Mo. Red Sorghum. Random House, 2012.
and Fatima Mernissi have all written about the struggles caused by domineering men which women have fought against for so long. It is not until the late twentieth century that we see a positive almost spiritual view of women from the stories told by Gao Xingjan in his book One Man’s Bible. The 1994 publication of Fatima Mernissi’s memoirs of her girlhood in a harem spoke powerfully in favor of women shedding prescribed gender roles in favor of embracing their own identities. It is books such as Fatima’s
In literature people cannot notice how much fiction or real life is in a story, even though, sometimes writers base their stories with personal events or people who have marked their lives in many ways, that inspires them to write their books. Real life experiences in literacy can be known as non-fiction stories. According to Hoover Library “Fiction refers to literature created from the imagination. Mysteries, science fiction, romance, fantasy, chick lit, crime thrillers are all fiction genres”.
events of their life in their stories, it makes readers feel like the situation is telling is real and can be more convincing and makes it believable, and occasionally makes readers to create an atmosphere in which they can relate to the situation. Gao Xingjian claims that “It 's in literature that true life can be found. It 's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth” (The Guardian 23). This means that some truth or real life events have been captured in each book, or literary work, but
Before looking closely at exactly what impact the events of 9/11 had upon American popular culture, it is important that we first explore the role of aesthetics – that is, any modem of artistic expression, such as film, art, poetry, music, etc. – in the context of international relations theory. Although it may seem a strange thing to connect, aesthetics and International Relations are surprisingly more intertwined with each other than many inside and outside the study of social sciences would probably