EAN: 9780679729532

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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 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.

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