Shikibu - The Tale of Genji (The Norton Library)
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In Dennis Washburns new translation of The Tale of Genji, lovers of novels will have the literary experience denied them until now.... Washburn eliminates the gap in centuries between us and that long-lost world and preserves for us the freshness of vision and voice of that great writer from long ago.
Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley
Washburn has performed a great service by making this groundbreaking novel, written in the eleventh century, available to the English-speaking world in a version worthy of the Japanese masterpiece.
Edith Grossman, translator of Don Quixote
Washburns translation is a very good one.... Waley is now a little old-fashioned. Washburns Genji is a fine intro for anyone wanting a way into this inviting, vibrant work.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dennis Washburns lucid and accessible rendering will introduce new readers to the entrancing narrative world of this great classic.
David Lurie, Columbia University
An amazingly cheering performance, a Genji to last a century.
Open Letters Monthly
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DENNIS WASHBURN is the Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies in honor of Richard M. Bressler 52 at Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD from Yale University in Japanese language and literature. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Copyright 2022, 2015 by Dennis Washburn
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Murasaki Shikibu, 978? author. | Washburn, Dennis C. (Dennis Charles), 1954, translator.
Title: The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu ; translated and abridged by Dennis Washburn.
Other titles: Genji monogatari. English
Description: First edition. | New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [2022] | Series: The Norton library | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021012967 | ISBN 9780393427912 (paperback) | ISBN 9780393885392 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Murasaki Shikibu, 978? Translations into English. | Courts and courtiersJapanFiction. | Japanese fictionTo 1600Translations into English. | Murasaki Shikibu, 978? Genji monogatari.
Classification: LCC PL788.4.G4 E5 2022 | DDC 895.63/14dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021012967
ISBN: 978-0-393-42791-2 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-0-393-88539-2 (ebook)
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Chapters marked with an asterisk are omitted in this Norton Library abridgment. Each is substituted in place with a short summary of the intervening plot.
What makes a literary work a classic?
At first glance the answer to this question seems straightforward, since most readers can, when asked, readily produce a list of canonical works, ancient or modern, that reflects both personal preferences and the commonly accepted standards of their particular culture. However, when reading and judging works from markedly different literary traditions, responding to this question becomes more challenging. This is certainly the case with The Tale of Genji, which has been considered a classic in Japan for almost a millennium. The work is a complex prose narrative that has rhetorical features strikingly similar to the modern novel even though it depicts a society whose values and cultural assumptions contemporary readers (including Japanese readers) may find difficult to relate to or comprehend. How, then, are we to judge The Tale of Genji? Are there standards that can be usefully applied across time and cultural differences?
Taking account of both the intrinsic literary qualities and the reception histories of literary works that are now deemed classics, it is clear that The Tale of Genji shares with them at minimum the following five characteristics. They emerge out of an established tradition, which they in turn fundamentally transform. Their formal artistry is of a depth and complexity that demands and rewards re-reading over the lifetime of an individual, while inspiring different interpretations over generations. They serve as a model for other artists across different media. They are paradoxically both worldly and intensely provincial. Finally, and above all, they are powerfully seductive. Examining The Tale of Genji through the critical lens of these characteristics will, I believe, illuminate the source of its achievement and its legacy.
When Murasaki Shikibu began her masterwork at the beginning of the eleventh century, she was already well versed in the literary practices that were an integral part of the everyday life of the court aristocracy during the Heian period (7941185). Murasaki was born into a lower-ranking branch of the politically dominant Fujiwara clan. Her father, Fujiwara no Tametoki (ca. 945?), was an accomplished poet and scholar of Chinese, and a number of her ancestors were also highly regarded poets: most notably her great-grandfather, Fujiwara no Kanesuke (877933), her grandfather, Masatada (d. 962), and her uncle, Tameyori (d. ca. 998), all of whom had poems selected for inclusion in various prestigious, imperially sponsored anthologies. Yet despite this literary lineage, Tametoki never occupied any position of political significance, and that lack of high official status posed challenges for his daughter throughout her life.
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