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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000, novelist Gao Xingjian is also an artist whose paintings are exhibited world-wide. This publication showcases a mesmerizing collection of ink-wash paintings that illustrates the different techniques, themes and periods in Gao’s extensive body of works. Further clues to the enigmatic and masterful paintings come from Gao’s novels and essays, revealing the unity of his literary and pictorial creations.

Gao Xingjian: Painter of the Soul is written by Daniel Bergez, an author, literary and art critic, professor of French Literature and painter. An admirer of the paintings of Gao Xingjian, his inspired text is informed by a profound knowledge of Gao Xingjian’s oeuvre.