The tale of Genji
| ISBN: | 0394483286, 9780394483283 |
| OCLC Number: | 2541047 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Murasaki Shikibu |
| Translator: | Edward Seidensticker |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Knopf, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1998; Tuttle, 1978; Franklin Library, 1983; Vintage, 1985, 1990 |
| Publication Place: | New York; Rutland, VT; Franklin Center, PA; New York |
| English Publication Date: | 1976 |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Genji monogatari. |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Subjects: | Japan, Intellectual life, Fiction Japan, Social life and customs, to 1600, Fiction Murasaki Shikibu, Translations into English Prince Genji, Fiction Princes, Fiction |