Friday, 25 October 2019

Tale of Genji

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... And then, six-hundred years earlier, there appeared what many consider to be the first novel ever written, The Tale of Genji, which “covers almost three quarters of a century,” notes translator Edward Seidensticker in an introduction to his 1976 edition. “The first forty-one chapters have to do with the life and loves of the nobleman known as ‘the shining Genji,’” the son of an emperor. We follow Genji... 
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Marguerite Yourcenar wrote 
one tale that is the following of Genji
in the oriental tales...






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