Description: Tale of Genji : A Reader's Guide, Paperback by Puette, William J., ISBN 4805310847, ISBN-13 9784805310847, Brand New, Free shipping in the US """Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasakis wondrous world will certainly find Puettes guide most helpful."" --The Japan Times
This is the most complete readers guide available on Japans highly revered novel, the eleventh-century classic, The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, referred to by Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata as the ""highest pinnacle of Japanese literature."" Written specifically to accompany the translation of the work by Arthur Waley and Edward G. Seidensticker, this guide offers detailed summaries and thematic commentaries, as well as cross-referenced notes on the novels many characters. It also charts the essential progress of The Tale of Genji and introduces the reader to the more subtle complexities, literary devices, and conventions of Lady Murasakis Heian Japan.
No longer does the reader have to try and guess the novels cultural and historical milieu. The author presents brief, illustrated essays on historical, philosophical, and cultural features of the novel, and discusses such relevant aspects as the balance between the tenets of Shintoism and Buddhism, the pervasive concepts of karma in human relationships, and the poetic aspects of aware. Both general readers and literature students will find the background information contained in this ""companion"" indispensable to their reading and interpretation of this complex novel."
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Book Title: Tale of Genji: a Reader's Guide
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication Year: 2009
Topic: Psychological, Classics, War & Military, Asian / Japanese
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: William J. Puette
Book Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
