There are the writer's thoughts and ruminations about This is one of the those novels where you don't seem to want to pick it up but whenever you do, you can't seem to stop reading. I was intrigued by the 'Nobel Prize Winner' stamp, but found it to be not my taste. The Cultural Revolution began on May 16, 1966 and was an internal political struggle that continued for ten years.In the novel, Gao's character talks about the actions of a group called the Red Guards and his actions while being a part of it. Whose oFor capturing the essence of memory and it's unstructured way of surfacing this book was great. Sylvie - A young French girl who is very free-spirited and does not have any strong political convictions. This book is an interesting window into the paranoia of Mao's China. Repression is the main theme of the novel - repression in thought, creativity, language and emotion. In I can't say that I enjoyed this book but it did make me more aware of what it must be like to live under a totalitarian state. He also talks about the interrogation sessions that are held in public to force individuals to admit to any crimes against the party. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel prize for literature, but I felt so far from being to relate to any of the characters that it was a hard read for me. Once again I am mystified at the Noble Prize for this author - hopefully his plays which he is most noted for is the reason for the award or may be the committee just needed a Chinese writer to make the awards look more balanced and Gao was the only one they could find that was being published in the West. At home simultaneously drawing from the most ancient of Confucian texts as well as the dilemmas and aporias of postmodernism, this is a great novel for anyone looking to not quite get out of the Western circle of literature...meaning, if you're looking for a dialectic of "East" and "West", then this is something to pick up. his time in Mao's China as a child, a young man and an adult. It just left me fatigued and eager to be done with the book. The term page-turner usually refers to some light plot-driven fluff, but here I was flipping pages as one can't avert his eyes from a train wreck.Morbidly gripping. But now having read the other Chinese books, I plan to read this again. No matter how it is wrapped up, it is insane at best, and I continue to be I can't say that I enjoyed this book but it did make me more aware of what it must be like to live under a totalitarian state. His two conflicting personalities--one entrenched in Cultural Revolution intrigue and the other reflecting upon it years later--hash it out in the second- and third-person points of view. At the same time, he declares how fragile his family is and how they progressively disappear during his lifetime. I really liked it. Once again I am mystified at the Noble Prize for this author - hopefully his plays which he is most noted for is the reason for the award or may be the committee just needed a Chinese writer to make the awards look more balanced and Gao was the only one they could find that was being published in the West. The book was later translated into English by Because the book jumps around on the timeline of the narrator's life it is difficult to give a perfectly linear plot summary. She is carefree and does not trouble herself with things from the past. There are some vignettes of stories, and they are told in the form of flashbacks but starting with the end and then at a later flashback going in some sort of a chronological order. As for being a Noble price winner i dont agree. Back in present-day Hong Kong, Gao talks again with Margarethe and they discuss politics and the pain of memory. Sylvie also shares with him the profound effect her friend's death had on her much like his own mother's death affected him. He is, he admits, a "Chinese writer" insofar as he writes in the Chinese language, but going beyond this would fall into nationalism, one of the most detested "isms. In one of the best sections of this book,The narrator of Gao Xinjian's "One Man's Bible" survives the political chaos of China's Cultural Revolution to win a solitary but much-cherished freedom in the West.

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