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In Honor of Gao Xingjian

于Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays

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Page Range:: 328–337

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004449121_014

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This article is a close and careful reading of Gao Xingjian’s play August Snow (Bayue xue 八月雪). Liu expertly and insightfully explores the philosophical and metaphysical contemplation underlying this play. He argues that August Snow is concerned not so much with religion as with the protagonist’s reflection on delusions of power and religion, compelling us to ask how one can achieve freedom and ultimately understand the truth of human existence. Derived from his own comprehension of Chan Buddism, Liu’s observant and provocative analysis acknowledges Gao’s philosophical meaning of escape and self-salvation underlying August Snow.

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Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays

ISBN:: 9789004449121

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 09 Jun 2021

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Chapter 12 Escape of the Mental Prisoner

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