June 16, 2007
Murasaki Shikibu's classic Japanese novel - translations and translated.
Unfortunately I can't find any examples of my favourite version of the story - the Tale of Genji wagashi commentary.
Or an alternative - "Wuthering Heights" recreated in custard creams and jammy dodgers? "Confessions of Justified Sinner" as a series of fish suppers?
Nifty. I've been meaning to read the Tale of Genji.
OK! Anybody with me.
ROOOOOOAAAAADD TRIIIIIPPP!!!
Neat, He. I'd love to read this novel while traveling around to every place illustrated here. Will take me a while to work through this site, but what I've seen is AAA+++
Sweet FPP.
Just glorious. I've always loved Genji, and this site ROCKS like a Zen garden. Well found and FPP'd, velvetrabbit!
Meh, Murasaki Shikibu was overrated.
*flashes gang signs*
What everyone else said! This is a cool FPP. :)
I like to collect English editions of Genji. I have - an abridged Seidensticker, unabridged hardcover Tyler, abridged (and super-cheap, Dover edition) Waley. I would like: there's a hardcover from either Modern Library or Everyman's Library, which I think is the full Seidensticker translation.
Have I read these? Not more than a few chapters out of each, though I have read most of the published diaries of the period, and Liza Dalby's novel about Murasaki. There's a Genji anime from 1987 that's interesting, but necessarily very abridged. Ivan Morris's book The World of the Shining Prince is really wonderful. One of these days I plan to lock myself up for a few months and finish reading at least one of the editions of Genji that I have (sort of like Gravity's Rainbow: "I can't go anywhere this month, I'm reading _______").
The Waley translation was Edward Gorey's favorite book. He liked its fairy-tale atmosphere (compared to more recent translations, which are more firmly grounded in Heian Japan).
Anyway, I wanted to add the following link to the mix: Dolls in the Tale of Genji.
Eek! Had planned to come back and add stuff but suddenly busy. No time for monkeying :(
Didn't know about the Edward Gorey connection. I knew about his favourite film - "I know where I'm going" - highly recommended if anyone hasn't seen it.
I've got the full Seidensticker translation. Lovely book but big. When I finally have the time to reread it I'm going to look for a slave to carry it round for me. "Genji days" is worth looking out for - based on Seidensticker's diaries.
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