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The Story of the Stone (Volume III) - Couverture souple

Livre 3 sur 5: Story of the Stone

Xueqin, Cao

 
9780140443707: The Story of the Stone (Volume III)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0140443703 ISBN 13 : 9780140443707
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1980

Synopsis

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature.
Divided into five volumes, of which The Warning Voice is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour, realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence - a theme which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cao Xueqin (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in) ca. 1715-1763
Cao is considered to be China's greatest novelist, but little is known of his life. An unconventional, versatile man, he came from an eminent and wealthy family which suffered a reversal of fortune in 1728 after the death of the Kangxi Emperor and a power struggle between his sons. Cao seems to have spent about ten years writing and revising his novel, from roughly 1740 to 1750, but the last 40 of the 120 chapters were completed by a different author, probably after his death. He also worked for a period of time in the Imperial Clan's school for the children of the nobility and bannermen, but eventually settled in the countryside west of Peking. He earned some money by selling his own paintings, but his family seems to have been perpetually in poverty.

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Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Date d'édition
1980
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0140443703
ISBN 13 
9780140443707
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
640
Éditeur
Gao E Gao
Coordonnées du fabricant
Penguin
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