Author: Gao, Xingjian
Year: 1989
Geography: Europe > Western Europe > France
Synopsis: The story recounts the early morning of June 4, 1989, when three people flee the square: a middle-aged man who “has long detested this dirty politics,” a youth who escaped from the square, and a female student about to graduate from drama school, who is also a broadcaster at the Tiananmen broadcasting station. The three flee to an abandoned warehouse that “looks just like hell,” where they spend a long night together. Due to their differing understandings of this democracy movement, they engage in ideological clashes, while the play interweaves the young man’s courtship of the girl and the girl’s seduction of the middle-aged man in entanglements of love and desire.
Publication: Gao, Xingjian. Taowang (Fugitives). Today (Jintian) magazine, Sept. 1989.
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