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Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji is among the foundational works of world literature and one of the most sophisticated representations of courtly life, desire, memory and impermanence produced in the premodern period. Written in Japan in the early 11th century during the Heian period, the work emerges from the aristocratic court culture that Murasaki herself knew intimately as a lady-in-waiting.Although The Tale of Genji is frequently called the world’s first novel, it is safer critically ...