Shikibu Murasaki

The Tale of Genji

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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 boo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-679-72953-2
EAN: 9780679729532
Produktnummer: 9508936
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.2 cm 364 g
Gewicht: 364

Über den Autor

Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji-written in the eleventh century and universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative and possibly the earliest true novel in the history of the world.