| Edition |
Vintage classics ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
The Paulownia court -- Evening faces -- Lavender -- An Autumn excursion -- The Festival of the Cherry Blossoms -- Heartvine -- The Sacred tree -- The Orange blossoms -- Duma -- Akashi -- Channel buoys -- A Picture contest. |
| Summary |
The classical novel of court life in tenth and eleventh-century Japan centers on the life and loves of a nobleman known as the shining Genji, son of an emperor, and those of Kaoru, grandson of Genji's best friend. 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. |
| Subject |
Japan -- Social life and customs -- To 1600 -- Fiction.
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Japan -- Fiction.
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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| Chronological Term |
To 1600
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Romances.
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Parables.
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| Added Title |
Genji monogatari. English. Selections
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| ISBN |
0679729534 (pbk.) |
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9780679729532 (pbk.) |
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