The Tale of Genji

Interesting. Not much actual plot. And there is no resolution. It just ends.

I have the Knopf first edition hard copy of this book and the Kindle edition as labeled with the University of Adelaide cover is textually complete with respect to this edition. The chapter text is complete and no chapters from the print edition have been removed. However, all of the introductory material, all the appendices, and all notes have been removed. The illustrations have been replaced with Wikipedia Commons versions of scans of the earliest complete set of paintings for each chapter. My main disappointment with this edition is not the missing material but the errors introduced by the scanning team. There are enough errors to be distracting even though many would have been caught by a spelling checker. There are also some formatting errors that make following the text harder than it should be but thankfully they are few.If you are interested in a complete standalone Kindle book of The Tale of Genji, the available Royall Tyler or Dennis Washburn translations are complete with respect to their printed editions including illustrations, front matter, notes, and appendices. They also have no obvious transcription errors going from the printed to Kindle editions. This Kindle edition is most suited for someone who specifically needs a Kindle edition of the complete Seidensticker translation and does not need any of the extra material to understand or follow the plot or the poetry.

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This is an assembly of various readers who have recorded in the public domain. As far as I can tell they are all LibriVox and mostly from places where English is not the primary language.The readings are from the Suematsu Kencho 1882 translation of the first 17 chapters.I wanted to listen to this during the long Christmas drive and Moira Fogarty did a credible job. However, starting with chapter 2, the accents were distracting--at least to my ears.This this is mind, the recording is solid and indexed by chapter and occasionally by subchapters.

I am not qualified to evaluate the "quality" of this book, but I found it very interesting to learn what kind of literature they wrote and read in Japan about 1000 years ago, at a time when my own country was far behind in most ways. I probably don't do the book justice if I call it "an ancient soap opera". There is certainly more to it than that. Especially the psychological insight is striking, but I prefer to leave it to experts to issue quality judgements. For ordinary readers "The Tale of Genji" is a fascinating window into a different time an culture.

Good

Fascinating story, beautifully written.

I downloaded this yesterday. To my dismay I found out that the many footnote markers in the text are not clickable. I searched through the ebook for the actual footnotes, and could not find them.There are also numerous text formatting issues, missing words and corrupted text after the portion you can view through "Look Inside" or the free sample.Thirdly, it does not say which translation this is, either on the Amazon page, or in the ebook itself. I believe it is the Seidensticker, based on the comparison of chapter titles in the Wikipedia article.I am very disappointed in Amazon!

great translation, good story...i do think the last part was written by someone else, maybe the daughter? the style and the attitude changes, becomes more distant, more elegiac, sadder...wiser? ....

Great delivery. A very thick book which I am fine ding a fascinating read.

C'est dommage, l'édition n'est pas super agréable, on dirait juste un pdf imprimé.Certains passages ont été justifiés, mais les mots sont séparés par de grands espaces, ce qui gêne la lecture.Aussi, les pages ne sont pas numérotées.C'est un simple ebook imprimé en fait, je suis déçue.

Un roman d'amour courtois, l'histoire d'un Don Juan, de la poésie, un livre magnifique. Seul bémol, je suppose qu'il faut bien connaître la culture japonaise pour en apprécier toutes les résonances.

Tuve que dejar de leer. Porque no sé leer inglés .... Después de leer la obra original en japonés , me doy cuenta de que no hay notas, es decir, que muchos sustantivos no están traducidos. Es un resumen muy breve. La obra original se encuentra gratis en Google book. 源氏物語 紫式部 与謝野晶子