Gao Xingjian: "Wandering Spirits and Mystical Thoughts: Poems by Gao Xingjian" is my first poetry collection.
Although he had been writing poetry since childhood, he had published very little of it.
After twenty years of waiting, this collection of poems is finally published!
The poems of Gao Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, an international all-round artist, and a world-renowned Chinese writer, are collected for the first time in full-color printing, and his latest ink paintings are also included for readers to collect.
"Your poems have a poetic clarity!" (This is how Liu Zaifu, a famous literary theorist and writer, commented on Gao Xingjian's poems)
This is a collection of poems that is worth collecting.
Lead you into the concise realm of poetry, language and art!
Gao Xingjian is not only an artist, but also a poet. He uses "poetic clarity" to resist the "emptiness" of life. He is concerned with the fluency and musicality of poetic language, and has spent years revising some of his works.
"Wandering Spirits and Mysterious Thoughts: Poems of Gao Xingjian" also fully demonstrates Gao Xingjian's pursuit and thinking in language expression: "My poems all return to spoken language, and people can understand them at once. It can be said that there is not a single sentence that needs to be carefully thought out, even though I have revised it repeatedly when writing it, and some of them even took several years to revise. ... In the past thirty years, the translation of Western modern and contemporary literature and linguistics has further Europeanized Chinese. I do the opposite, pursuing the accessibility and fluency of modern Chinese."
Liu Zaifu (a famous literary theorist and writer) believes that Gao Xingjian's "poems respond to the common survival dilemma of mankind in the East and the West, and there is not a single empty cry, not a single pretentious word, and no affectation... It resonates with people. If Eliot captured the "decay" of the human world, then Gao Xingjian captured the "emptiness" of the deterioration of human values in the current era."
About the Author
Gao Xingjian
An internationally renowned all-round artist, he is a novelist, playwright, drama and film director, painter and thinker. He was born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China in 1940, acquired French citizenship in 1997 and settled in Paris. In 2000, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Chinese writer to receive this honor. His novels and plays focus on the survival dilemma of mankind. The Swedish Academy praised him in the Nobel Prize citation with "universal values, profound insights and rich wit of language."
The French translation of his novels, Lingshan and One Man's Bible, once caused a sensation in the French literary world. The Agence France-Presse called them milestones in Chinese literature at the end of the 20th century. They have now been translated into 37 languages and widely distributed around the world. His plays include 18, including Station, Savage, The Other Shore, Escape, The Realm of Life and Death, Night Wanderer, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Snow in August, Questioning Death, and Gao Xingjian's Plays. They have been performed frequently in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia. He is also the first Chinese playwright to enter the contemporary world theater. His works on literature and art, Noism, Another Aesthetics, and On Creation, are all sharp and independent. His paintings are also unique, blending meditation, imagination and poetry in ink and water, presenting a transcendent and profound inner world. He has held more than 80 exhibitions in many art museums, art fairs and galleries in Europe, Asia and North America, and published 30 picture albums.
In addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was also awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, the Knight of the Order of Honor of France, the Ferronia Literature Prize of Italy, the Special Tribute Award of the Milan Art Festival of Italy, the Gold Plate Award of the American Academy of Lifetime Achievement, the Lion Award of the New York Public Library, and the Luxembourg Gold Medal for European Contribution; the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Provence in France, the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, the National Taiwan University, the National Central University and the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan have all awarded him honorary doctorates. In addition, in 2003, the city of Marseille, France, held a large-scale art creation event for him, the "Gao Xingjian Year", and in 2008, the French Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau and the Chinese University of Hong Kong held the "Gao Xingjian Art Festival" for him.