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Genji Monogatari: A Classic Japanese Court Romance
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515432258
Publisher: A & D Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Genji Monogatari, better known in English as The Tale of Genji, is one of the supreme classics of world literature, presented here in Kencho Suematsu's English translation. Written in eleventh-century Japan, the work follows the life, loves, ambitions, griefs, and political entanglements of Hikaru Genji, the shining son of an emperor whose beauty, charm, rank, and desire draw him through the refined but dangerous world of the Heian court.
The novel is famous not merely for its age, but for its extraordinary subtlety. Courtship unfolds through poetry, gesture, rank, seasonal feeling, secrecy, and suggestion. Behind the elegance lie jealousy, loneliness, rivalry, exile, religious longing, death, and the fragile impermanence of human attachment. Lady Murasaki gives the court world a depth of emotional and social observation that still feels astonishingly modern: people are shaped by desire, memory, status, etiquette, and the consequences of choices they only partly understand.
Readers interested in Japanese literature, world classics, courtly romance, women writers, psychological fiction, and the history of the novel will find Genji Monogatari essential. It is a landmark of Heian culture, a masterpiece of intimate observation, and a book that helped define what long-form fiction could become centuries before the European novel reached maturity.
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