Name: The Tale of Genji (Everyman's Library Classics)
SKU: 51220051
Price: 44.05 EUR
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Author: Murasaki Shikibu
ISBN: 9781857151084

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The Tale of Genji (Everyman's Library Classics)

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Physical Book

Author

Murasaki Shikibu

Publisher

Everyman

Synopsis "The Tale of Genji (Everyman's Library Classics) "

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.

Murasaki Shikibu

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Although her immense talent was recognized in her time, very little is known about the writer's life. She may have been born in 975, she may have died in 1014. Not even her real name is known. It is known that she was the daughter of a scholar, though a poet without talent, passionate about literature, who taught his daughter the Chinese language and its classics, but also passed on to her the love for the literature of her ancestors.

They say her father regretted that such a smart girl had not been born a boy to continue the literary prestige of the family. However, he took his young daughter with him on a long journey through the Empire. It is known that at the age of twenty-nine, Murasaki lived at the Court as a lady-in-waiting to the intelligent Empress Akiko. Between the year 1008 and the year 1010 she wrote her diary, perhaps simultaneously to the composition of The Tale of Genji.

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