Gao Xingjian’s Dialogue with Literary and Visual Traditions

• Authors: Izabella Łabędzka

Title variants

PL

Dialog Gao Xingjian’a z tradycjami literackimi i wizualnymi

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper is devoted to the contemporary Chinese prose and drama writer, painter,stage director and author of experimental art films, Gao Xingjian. My aim is topresent his innovative solutions in the field of different arts and media. I try toanalyze his works in a broad context of Eastern and Western culture and to showthe flexibility with which he crosses the narrow borders of arts, makes use of therich heritage of his native traditional culture, Chinese Taoist philosophy with itsprocessual understanding of reality. I also point at his interest in the aesthetics ofemptiness and artistic minimalism.

PL

Niniejszy tekst poświęcony jest twórczości współczesnego chińskiego pisarza, dramaturga,malarza, inscenizatora i autora eksperymentalnych filmów artystycznych,Gao Xingjiana. Moim celem było pokazanie szerokich i nowatorskich poszukiwańpierwszego chińskiego Noblisty w zakresie różnorodnych sztuk i mediów w kontekścieporównawczym Wschód – Zachód, jego umiejętności swobodnego przekraczania granic sztuk, wykorzystywania zasobów rodzimej kultury tradycyjnejoraz chińskiej filozofii taoistycznej z jej procesualnym rozumieniem rzeczywistości,a także estetyki pustki i artystycznego minimalizmu.

Keywords

EN

Gao Xingjian; intertextuality; intermediality; Chinese literature; Gao Xingjian; intertextuality; intermediality; Chinese literature

PL

Gao Xingjian; intertekstualność; intermedialność; literatura chińska

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Porównania
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 331-343

Dates

published

2020-06-15

Contributors

author

Izabella Łabędzka

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8626-4802

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/por.2020.1.19