The Tale of Genji Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Everyman s Library PRH USA
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
6882
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
11.01.1993
Verlag
Everyman s Library PRH USASeitenzahl
1224
Maße (L/B/H)
21.2/13.9/5.6 cm
Gewicht
1007 g
Farbe
Camel
Übersetzt von
Edward G. Seidensticker
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-679-41738-5
In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world’s first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (794—1185) is recognized as one of the very greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period but also the most lively and absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture that made such a masterpiece possible.
Genji is the favorite son of the emperor but also a man of dangerously passionate impulses. In his highly refined world, where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, his shifting alliances and secret love affairs create great turmoil and very nearly destroy him.
Edward Seidensticker’s translation of Lady Murasaki’s splendid romance has been honored throughout the English-speaking world for its fluency, scholarly depth, and deep literary tact and sensitivity.
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