by Murasaki Shikibu · Ediciones Destino · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423337729
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«La novela de Genji. Esplendor» is the classic Japanese novel by Murasaki Shikibu, published by Ediciones Destino in hardback (930 pages, in Spanish).
Genji, son of an emperor kept away from court, grows up in refined imperial Japan and has numerous amorous and courtly adventures. The plot spans more than half a century, with many characters, power struggles and intrigues.
First instalment of La novela de Genji; part of the Áncora & Delfín collection. Translation and commentary by Xavier Roca-Ferrer, with a foreword by Harold Bloom.
For readers interested in classical and Japanese literature and in great historical novels.
Murasaki Shikibu , or Shijo , was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a descriptive name; her personal name is unknown, but she may have been Fujiwara no Kaoruko (藤原香子), who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.
