The Tale of GenjiKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 06.02.2013 - 384 Seiten 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. |
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Evening Faces | 28 |
Lavender | 65 |
An Autumn Excursion Io 7 | 107 |
The Festival of the Cherry Blossoms | 134 |
Heartvine | 146 |
The Sacred Tree | 186 |
The Orange Blossoms | 231 |
Surma | 236 |
Akashi | 279 |
Channel Buoys | 316 |
A Picture Contest | 345 |
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