Tale of Genji
Subtitle: A Reader's Guide
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: February 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780804818797
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; Murasaki Shikibu,; Japanese Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literature: Classics; b. 978?; Asian - General; Genji monogatari; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: Genji Monogatari is, many agree, the world's oldest novel, written a thousand years ago, but almost totally unknown to Western readers until the appearance of the fine translations of Arthur Waley and Edward G. Seidensticker in this century.