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224 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781880656624
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 01 September 2002
Description
Murasaki Shikibu is well known as the author of the brilliant Tale of Genji, the romance that has given her distinction as the world's first novelist. Yet in eleventh-century Japan, the highest form of literary effort was not the narrative, but ra...
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224 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781880656624
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 01 September 2002
Description
Murasaki Shikibu is well known as the author of the brilliant Tale of Genji, the romance that has given her distinction as the world's first novelist. Yet in eleventh-century Japan, the highest form of literary effort was not the narrative, but ra...