INTERVIEW WITH Gao Xingjian GAO XINGJIAN, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR ...

In town for the Prague Writers' Festival, Gao talked with The Prague Post in the courtyard of Hotel Josef, the nerve center of the festival. While in admitted political exile, Gao is quick to refute the idea that literature can or, ... There is a limit," he says, singling out James Joyce's Finnegans Wake as a book that goes beyond this limit. "You have to use a certain kind of filter. Language is first and foremost a human voice; it's not just intellectual writing." ...