Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich and changeable as those imagined by Proust. Chief of these is "the shining Genji," the son of the emperor and a man whose passionate impulses create great turmoil in his world and very nearly destroy him. This edition, recognized as the finest version in English, contains a dozen chapters from early in the book, carefully chosen by the translator, Edward G. Seidensticker, with an introduction explaining the selection. It is illustrated throughout with woodcuts from a seventeenth-century edition.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Not only the world's first real novel, but one of its greatest."
-- Donald Keene, Columbia University"A. triumph of authenticity and readability."
-- Washington Post Book World
"[Seidensticker's] translation has the ring of authority."
-- The New York Times Book Review
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679729534
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679729532
Copyright: 1990
Dewey Decimal: 895.6/31
Library of Congress: BL 99710351
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.8
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