Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian, Noël Dutrait, Liliane Dutrait

"Written in musical language (and beautifully translated), this 'Oriental novel' claims a modernist form, devilishly melodic, free of all rules, detoxified from all wooden language, and a fidelity to Chinese novels that mixed fantastic tales and memories of monks, popular songs and romances, episodes of the Han and Wei dynasties, the exploits of the Ming and Qing." Jean-Luc Douin, Télérama. "This fascinating book is the work of a painter, a poet, and a philosopher: with its thousand facets, it dazzles like a kaleidoscope of an eternal China, a cruel China, sometimes superb, torn between destruction and rebirth." Diane de Margerie, Le Figaro. "A great novel. The rather necrotic Chinese literature of the 1990s will now have to reckon with Gao Xingjian's creative force and daring." Alain Peyraube, Le Monde. "The intrepid Gao Xingjian has just written the most disorienting of novels: a celestial backpacker's guide whose pages scatter in the offshore winds like kites. It is an enchantment." André Clavel, L'Express.

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