||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| One of the great works of literature--a must read|By tgasloli|Truly one of the great works of literature. Heike needs to become part of the standard literary canon. Like the Shakespeare history plays (Richard II through Richard III) this is a story of an unstable monarchy spiraling out of control into ever increasing violence and brutality. And like Shakespeare it does it i||"An elegant new translation [and] an account of a 12th century civil war that is an important historical document as well as a work of great power and beauty."--Los Angeles Times|||"Encountering Homer in a vivid translation made Keats feel like an asto
From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic
The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad—a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and manga—indeed on the Japanese people’s sense of...
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