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The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu
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The discussion revolves around the themes of love, enlightenment, and the cultural context of early medieval Japan as depicted in 'The Tale of Genji'.

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It's a novel called The Tale of Genji. And to give you a sense of the sheer weight of it, in the translation by Royal Tyler, which we'll be quoting from a fair bit today, that book is more than 1,000 pages long.