{"product_id":"the-tale-of-genji-murasaki-shikibu","title":"The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich and changeable as those imagined by Proust. Chief of these is \"the shining Genji,\" the son of the emperor and a man whose passionate impulses create great turmoil in his world and very nearly destroy him. This edition, recognized as the finest version in English, contains a dozen chapters from early in the book, carefully chosen by the translator, Edward G. Seidensticker, with an introduction explaining the selection. It is illustrated throughout with woodcuts from a seventeenth-century edition.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMurasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, is best known as the author of \u003cb\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewritten in the eleventh century and universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative and possibly the earliest true novel in the history of the world.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 384 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63614292394333,"sku":"K096466043","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/242928-9646604300001A.jpg?v=1772007121","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-tale-of-genji-murasaki-shikibu","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}