Wu Cheng'En: Monkey King, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Monkey King
- Journey to the West
- Publisher:
- Julia Lovell
- Translation:
- Julia Lovell
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 09/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780143138938
- Item number:
- 12086488
- Volume:
- 384 Pages
- other:
- 1 B&W MAP; 1 B&W ILLUSTRATION
- Weight:
- 500 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 25.9.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
One of the world's greatest fantasy novels, and a timeless classic of Chinese literature
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong; a rice-loving divine pig; and a depressive man-eating river-sand monster.
Comparable to The Canterbury Tales or Don Quixote, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment.
Biography (Julia Lovell)
Julia Lovell, geboren 1975, lehrt chinesische Geschichte und Literatur an der Universität Cambridge. Sie lebte längere Zeit in China und schreibt als freie Autorin für so renommierte Magazine wie The Times, Guardian, Economist und The Times Literary Supplement.Biography (Julia Lovell)
Julia Lovell, geboren 1975, lehrt chinesische Geschichte und Literatur an der Universität Cambridge. Sie lebte längere Zeit in China und schreibt als freie Autorin für so renommierte Magazine wie The Times, Guardian, Economist und The Times Literary Supplement.
