[PDF.20pk] The Tale of Genji (Vintage International)

The Tale of Genji (Vintage International)

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 | #451159 in Books |  Vintage |  1990-06-16 |  1990-06-16 |  | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.95 x.79 x5.13l,.79 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Abridged but we are not told so (kindle)|By Russael|Great book, great translation - too bad Vintage and didn't say it was abridged. You get only one quarter of the chapters. In kindle, where space is not a problem, why? But what is unconscionable is not to say so. The entire ebook front matter does not mention the abridgment, until you read into the introduction. The only pl|.com |Widely acknowledged as the world's first novel, this astonishingly lovely book was written by a court lady in Heian Japan and offers a window into that formal, mannered world. Genji, a man of passionate impulses and a lover of beauty, is the favorite son

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 i...

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