The Tale of Genji - Couverture souple

Shikibu, Murasaki

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679729534 ISBN 13 : 9780679729532

Editeur : Vintage, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Murasaki Shikibu

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

"Not only the world's first real novel, but one of its greatest."

-- Donald Keene, Columbia University"A. triumph of authenticity and readability."

-- Washington Post Book World

"[Seidensticker's] translation has the ring of authority."

-- The New York Times Book Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679729534
• ISBN 13: 9780679729532
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384