What metaphors are used in The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian?

THe absurd is metaphorical through the narrative. The Theater of the Absurd refers to the dramatic movements of the 1940s and 1950s and was portrayed in the plays of writers such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Eugene Ionesco. The term was used by existentialist French philosophers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Xingjian was profoundly influenced in his writing by French existential thought and much of The Other Shore is directly influenced by French absurdist drama.