lauramacaulay 's review for:

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

2.0

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Back in 2000 it was perfectly acceptable to award the Nobel Prize for a book that unquestioningly portays women as weak, dim-witted things men have sex with and rape. In this novel the middle-aged male protagonist scorns a young woman for being suicidal after having been molested by her father; the protagonist then tells her all kinds of stories about rape, ignoring her repeated requests not to hear them, before having sex with her. "A true work of great literature" indeed. Thank goodness #metoo has changed our literary standards for the better.