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The Tale Of Genji (Hardcover, Reissue)
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The Tale Of Genji (Hardcover, Reissue)
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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More complete than Arthur Waley's classic translation, despite
fewer words. One chapter (38, "The Bell Cricket") and many shorter
passages cut by Waley are back in, while all of Waley's
embellishments, explanations, clarifications, and attempts to make
Lady Murasaki's "novel" more familiar, are out. The result is
sometimes drier, even awkwardly vague at some transitional points,
but in other instances more lucid, beautifully understated, and
definitely closer to the spare style of the original period
Japanese. And this makes Seidenstricker's version not only superior
today but the one future stylists will work from for any
improvements. (Kirkus Reviews)
This is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th
centuries, which is recognized as a great period in Japanese
literature. It is an account of the intricate, exquisite, highly
ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible.
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