GaoXingjian's Soul Mountain: Autobiographical Overtone

Abstract

This research entitled Xingjian’s Soul Mountain:Autobiographical Overtone depicts the story of a wandering man himself. It merges his past and present and thus lends an autobiographical overtone. It includes personal typicality, spiritual reality, and objective truth and makes the novel a historical autobiography. It reveals the intertwining aspects of physical environment. The novel accordingly analyzes how literature can provoke environmental reflection by expanding preconceived understandings of the non-human environment as a dimension of personal and communal sense of place.Xingjian, in the novel, presents the problems faced by himself. He records his own past, and society of China because his aim is to expose his own reality.