As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of
inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on
the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the
late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great
sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the
escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to India in
search of Buddhist scriptures to carry back to China, this sequel
is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between
desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective. The consummate
literati novel, written by an accomplished artist for a
well-educated readership, it is filled with allusions and parodies
and features a dream-sequence narrative that is innovative and
sophisticated even by modern standards. This new, fully annotated
translation by two acclaimed scholars and translators brings to
life this remarkably inventive, playful early modern text. The
volume includes the original commentaries and illustrations, a
critical introduction and afterword, and notes that highlight the
sources of the novel’s intertextual references, revealing the
author’s erudition and versatility.
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