Monkey.
By: Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Xuanzang, ca. 596-664 -- Fiction; Priests, Buddhist -- China -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
Notes: Translation of Xi you ji.