- Published: 27 August 2014
- ISBN: 9780241386033
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 784
The Tale of the Heike
- Published: 27 August 2014
- ISBN: 9780241386033
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 784
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Encountering Homer in a vivid translation made Keats feel like an astonished astronomer watching a new planet swim into view. Readers unfamiliar with medieval Japanese literature ... may feel a kindred excitement on first looking into The Tale of the Heike, in a taut new rendering by Royall Tyler
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In his elegant new translation, Royall Tyler divides the text into something resembling an opera libretto, with recitatives, arias and dialogue
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Tyler offers accessible language while observing literary tradition in names and format. To help both old hands and newcomers navigate the vibrant yet sometimes arduous masterpiece, he provides an introduction, character list, maps, geneaologies, chronologies, footnotes, and glorious 19th-century illustrations
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