Ancient Japanese narratives of miracles
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Ancient Japanese narratives of miracles
19.99 €
15.99 €
The belief in the miraculousness of the world has nourished Japanese medieval prose throughout its more than thousand-year history. From century to century, new stories of the marvelous and extraordinary were created: of mysterious transformations and prophetic dreams, of werewolves and the departed souls of the dead, of journeys to distant fairy-tale lands, of going to the underworld or ascending to paradise.
This edition includes translations from the most famous and at the same time different in type, genre and time of creation monuments of ancient Japanese prose about miracles - from early collections of short moral stories, where the most incredible events are thought no less real and credible than any worldly incident, to works of short stories of the late Middle Ages, in which the supernatural is shrouded in a haze of mystery and appears in all its intriguing and frightening otherness.
This edition includes translations from the most famous and at the same time different in type, genre and time of creation monuments of ancient Japanese prose about miracles - from early collections of short moral stories, where the most incredible events are thought no less real and credible than any worldly incident, to works of short stories of the late Middle Ages, in which the supernatural is shrouded in a haze of mystery and appears in all its intriguing and frightening otherness.
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