Monkey - Brossura

Ch'eng-en, Wu

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140449930 ISBN 13: 9780140449938

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2004

Riassunto

Monkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures accompanied by his three unruly disciples: the greedy pig creature Pipsy, the river monster Sandy - and Monkey. Hatched from a stone egg and given the secrets of heaven and earth, the irrepressible trickster Monkey can ride on the clouds, become invisible and transform into other shapes - skills that prove very useful when the four travellers come up against the dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards that threaten to prevent them in their quest. Wu Ch'źng-źn wrote Monkey in the mid-sixteenth century, adding his own distinctive style to an ancient Chinese legend, and in so doing created a dazzling combination of nonsense with profundity, slapstick comedy with spiritual wisdom.

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L'autore:

Very little is known about Wu Ch-eng-en (c. 1505-80) although he is believed to have held the post of District Magistrate for a time. He had a reputation as a good poet but only a few rather commonplace verses of his survive in an anthology of Ming poetry and in a local gazetteer.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0140449930
• ISBN 13: 9780140449938
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352