The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

Vintage

1990

360 páginas

12h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780679729532

In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich and changeable as those imagined by Proust. Chief of these is "the shining Genji," the son of the emperor and a man whose passionate impulses create great turmoil in his world and very nearly destroy him. This edition, recognized as the finest version in English, contains a dozen chapters from early in the book, carefully chosen by the translator, Edward G. Seidensticker, with an introduction explaining the selection. It is illustrated throughout with woodcuts from a seventeenth-century edition.

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4 (Muito bom)

A história é um pouco longa (isso pq eu li na versão resumida kkkk) e acaba sendo um pouco cansativa e repetitiva, mas pelo menos fiquei feliz por ter conhecido essa que é considerada a primeira obra de romance do oriente ou do mundo. É uma confusão só entre as mulheres do Genji e eu nunca decorava com quem ele tava na hora rs mas é uma boa história que abrange uns 70 anos da vida dele.