Murasaki Shikibu

Shikibu Murasaki : The Tale of Genji

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The Genji's Dit, this great classic of universal literature that Borges said was never equaled, was written at the beginning of the eleventh century by Lady Murasaki, an aristocrat who lived in the imperial court of Heian-kyô (present-day Kyôto). However, writes René Sieffert who worked on his translation almost twenty years, "not for a moment did I have the feeling of a real change of scenery, neither in time nor …

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