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My Question for Myself

Gao Xingjian

‘Gao Xingjian, what have you never done that you would like to do?’

‘Music. Inside of me there is a rhythm. But it’s very complicated to make it real.’

 

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Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalised novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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