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Literature · 1990

Soul Mountain

Gao Xingjian

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Soul Mountain
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Restates memory in a sharper literature register.

A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.

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A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.

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