The Tale of Genji, Volume 2
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Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji - widely considered the world’s first novel - during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki’s tale came to occupy a central place in Japan’s remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.
The Tale of Genji is presented here in a flowing new translation for contemporary listeners, who will discover in its depiction of the culture of the imperial court the rich complexity of human experience that simultaneously resonates with and challenges their own. Dennis Washburn embeds annotations for accessibility and clarity and renders the poetry into triplets to create prosodic analogues of the original.
©2015 Dennis Washburn (translation) (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
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Geschichte2 out of 5 stars
- Wolfgang Kramer
- 31.05.2022
Wasted Opportuntiy
It is an honourable task to produce an audiobook of the complete story of Prince Genji- about 70 hours of reading... but after 70 hours of LISTENING I am only happy to have come to an end with it at last.
Two severe flaws made it hard to enjoy this book. First of all the actor who is reading this. He was definitely chosen for his bilingual background, which guarantees a perfect pronunciation of all the japanese words and names in the text, but he tends to read with such an affectation that it sometimes becomes unbearable- either english or japanese (I do not think, I ever want to hear words like "seven string koto" again...). On the other hand he has very limited ways of giving life to the direct speech of the figures in the novel. About four different voices for about 100 different characters is not enough... and they all remain shallow and often sound just like poor parody. Ridicolous.
All poems, of which there a many in the text, are rendered the same way. Nothing of their beauty is really conveyed. Just pitching the voice a little and droning off is NOT the best way to recite them... As they are an important part of the novel it is quite a drawback for this audiobook.
The other flaw is the translation. In a very detailed foreword we learn about the difficulties of translating a novel which is more than 1000 years old and which comes from totally different cultural surroundings. Several translations have been presented in the course of time, some have chosen to explain all the peculiarities of the Heian period in many, many footnotes, but here it was decided to integrate short information into the text itself. This was meant to guarantee a more fluent reading (or listening to...). Aim achieved-- but why does the text have to be so near to our modern daily-life tone? I was almost expecting to hear sentences like "Oops, and then ol' Genji was banging this milf, lol..."
The flippant, light language made it on the whole quite easy to listen to, but I never felt the magic and the beauty of the text, (coming from a highly cultivated era) which other translations have tried to transfer into the english language.
The only strong feeling that remains after listening to this audiobook is that of a wasted opportunity.
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