The Tale of Genji
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One of the world's oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-century romance offers a vast tapestry of court life, rich in poetry and subtle social, psychological observations.Los Angeles TimesTyler has completed the first major "Genji" translation of the 21st century, and it sets a new standard. Not only is this latest English edition the most scrupulously true to the original, it also is superbly written and genuinely engaging. On occasion Tyler even manages to give us a taste of the formal aspect of Murasaki's style, with some wonderfully meandering, clause-embedded sentences. His technique is quite deliberate, and just as a reader feels the need to come up for air, the realization dawns that we are in fact following a subterranean map of Murasaki's prose.
VOLUME ONE Acknowledgmentsvii List of Maps and Diagramsx Introductionxi The Tale of Genji, Chapters 1-331 VOLUME TWO The Tale of Genji, Chapters 34-54575 Chronology1125 General Glossary1134 Clothing and Color1154 Offices and Titles1159 Summary of Poetic Allusions Identified in the Notes1169 Further Reading1173
