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Article: The Self In 'Silhouette'.(Arts)
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- Newsweek International
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- December 24, 2007
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Byline: Alexandra A. Seno
After a health scare, exiled Chinese artist Gao Xingjian returns to the public eye with new works.
Gao Xingjian comes from a centuries-old tradition of multitasking. The author of the novel "Soul Mountain" may be best known as the controversial winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000 -- the first time the prize was ever awarded to a Chinese writer. But he is also a successful painter, poet and playwright. His works have often been about the dignity of the individual, a motif that has earned him international respect as an artist and much personal suffering in a land that has long glorified the collective.
Gao ...