Supplemented with detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies to help the reader navigate the multigenerational narrative, this comprehensive edition presents this ancient tale in the grand style that it deserves.

Royall Tyler’s superior translation is detailed, poetic, and superbly true to the Japanese original while allowing the modern reader to appreciate it as a contemporary treasure. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. A Reading of the Tale of Genji Royall Tyler 5.00 4 ratings0 reviews This is a lightly edited, re-titled edition of THE DISASTER OF THE THIRD PRINCESS: ESSAYS ON THE TALE OF GENJI. The tale from eleventh century Japan recreates (in over eleven hundred pages) a time and a region long lost, distant from memory and everyday life, and yet full of timeless and contemporary human passions and feelings. Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, in an impressive translation by Royall Tyler, is a classic of world literature. The file here is the complete novel in EPUB and MOBI formats. Also included an introduction from another translation of the book by Royall Tyler to explain its background - EPUB & MOBI.īook Description: The original novel-a classic of Japanese and world literature and a stunningly beautiful story. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, in an impressive translation by Royall Tyler, is a classic of world literature. 'The Tale of Genji' by Murasaki Shikibu - A famous Japanese novel written by a courtesan from the Heian Period (11th Century).

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