You are neither a dragon nor a worm, neither this nor that. That which is not is you, and that which is not is not a negation. It is better to say that it is a realization, a trace, a consumption, a result. Before exhaustion or death, you are just a message of life, a manifestation and statement of not.
You wrote this book for yourself, this escape book, your own Bible, you are your own God and apostle, if you don't sacrifice yourself for others, then don't ask others to sacrifice themselves for you, this is fair, happiness is what everyone wants, how can it all belong to you? You have to know that there is not much happiness in this world.
This book is another masterpiece that the author has just completed after the French translation of (Lingshan) made a sensation in the French literary world. The protagonist "he" and "you" in the book are the same person. The former's nightmare-like memories in mainland China and the latter's wandering thoughts in the West are contrasted with each other. It is also the inner confession and declaration of a world wanderer without a motherland and no ideology at the end of this century. The writing is cold and shocking.
About the Author
Gao Xingjian is the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Gan County, Jiangxi Province in 1940, and his ancestral home is Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. He is a novelist, playwright, and painter, and currently lives in Paris. He has written the novel "Spirit Mountain", the novella collection "A Pigeon Called Red Lips", and the short story collection "Buy My Grandpa a Fishing Rod"; 18 plays, which are collected in "Gao Xingjian Drama Collection", "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Six Plays by Gao Xingjian", "Weekend Quartet" and other books; his works include "A Preliminary Study on Modern Novel Techniques", "The Pursuit of a Kind of Drama", "Noism", and "On Writing". His works have been translated into more than ten languages and published. His plays have been performed in many countries, including Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin in Africa, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has also held dozens of solo exhibitions of his ink paintings in Europe, Asia and America, and published albums such as "Gao Xingjian's Ink Paintings", "Ink Fun", and "Ink and Light".