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One Man's Bible, by Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee; HarperCollins, 2002, $29.95.
WRITTEN IN PARIS between 1996 and 1998, One Man's Bible interweaves the years of Cultural Revolution and the narrator's life in the West. Through it Gao Xingjian comes to terms with and wrenches himself out of the shadow of the dark years that plunged a billion Chinese individuals into chaos.
In an interview of 1998 with Noel Dutrait, the French translator of One Man's Bible, Gao Xingjian, who had believed that with his previous novel, Soul Mountain, he had finished with any feeling of "nostalgia for China", found that although "the Chinese backdrop gradually faded ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The weaving of memories.(One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian)(Book Review)