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In Dionysus on the Other Shore, Letizia Fusini argues that throughout his early exile years (late 1980s-1990s), Gao Xingjian gradually moved away from Absurdist Drama to develop a dramaturgical system with tragic characteristics. Drawing on a range of contemporary theories of tragedy, this book reconfigures some of the key tropes of Gao’s post-1987 theater as varied articulations of the Dionysian sparagmos mechanism. They are the dismemberment of the dramatic self, the usage of constricted spaces, the divisive nature of gender relations, and the agony of verbal language. Through a...

Focusing on the work of the first Chinese-born Nobel Laureate in Literature Gao Xingjian, the scope of this study is to provide an existentialist reading of one of his most controversial plays: "Escape." Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen square massacres in 1989, this play explores the ways in which an individual, when placed in a situation of physical confinement and extreme emotional distress, is forced to confront the inescapable realities of the human condition, i.e. captivity, exile, the Ego and ultimately death. In an attempt to challenge the general claim whereby such play...