| Autor: |
Seidensticker, Edward G., Shirane, Haruo |
| Zdroj: |
Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching; 1994, p390-403, 14p |
| Abstrakt: |
This article presents an overview of the Tale of Genji by Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu. The title comes from the family name of the hero, Genji or Minamoto. His death is not described, but it occurs between the forty-first and forty-second of the fifty-four chapters into which the story is divided. The remaining chapters have to do largely with the affairs of Kaoru, a young man thought by the world to be Genji's son but in fact the illegitimate son of one of his wives. The action covers upwards of seventy years. There are hundreds of characters, perhaps fifty of them important. Yet the plot is essentially simple. |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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