viernes, 18 de julio de 2025
miércoles, 16 de julio de 2025
One of the defining works of Japanese literature
 Poems of lament, longing, and life in Japan more than 1,000 years ago  THE TEN THOUSAND LEAVESPOEMS FROM THE MAN’YŌSHŪTranslated from the Japanese by Ian Hideo LevyThe Man'yōshū is considered, along with The Tale of Genji, to be one of the most important works in classical Japanese literature. The title means “anthology of ten thousand leaves,” the anthology of anthologies from the first flowering of artistic and literary sensibility during the Asuka and Nara periods—the seventh and eighth centuries.Exhibiting an astonishing variety, the poems range from the grand animistic rhetoric of laments for the imperial family to the stark and curiously modern “Dialogue of the Destitute”; from the elegant banquet verse of aristocrats to the “poems of the frontier guardsmen.” As its title suggests, The Ten Thousand Leaves is a gathering of poems of many kinds, from a time unparalleled in Japanese history.This volume reproduces the first five books of the original Man'yōshū, with an introduction and notes by the translator, Ian Hideo Levy, whose elegant and informative edition was a finalist for the National Book Award.For three days only, The Ten Thousand Leaves is available at 25% off.Read a selection of poems from The Ten Thousand Leaves57 (from Book One) Go into the field, 107 (from Book Two) 108 (from Book Two) 350 You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from NYRB. You can choose the types of mailings you wish to receive: |
lunes, 14 de julio de 2025
Last chance: Get Benito Pérez Galdós’s ‘Miaow’ with the NYRB Classics Book Club
  Get a discount on new memberships to the NYRB Classics Book Club: Sign up for twelve months now and you’ll receive $70 off the regular rate. Membership in the club ensures a monthly literary surprise selected from among our newest titles by the NYRB editors.Now is your last chance to receive the July selection with this discount. Order by this Wednesday, July 16, and we’ll begin your membership with the novel Miaow by Benito Pérez Galdós, who was called “the best Spanish writer of the nineteenth century” by Mario Vargas Llosa. A satire of middle-class life that bears comparison with the novels of Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, the novel serves up a scathing critique of societal corruption and the dehumanizing rituals of work. Margaret Jull Costa's new translation brings out the tragedy, the comedy, and the vitality of Galdós’s prose.About NYRB Classics “Once you have discovered the series it’s as if you’ve just gained an incredibly well-read friend who consistently lends you obscure yet highly enjoyable books.” —Vogue “One of the very few happy innovations in contemporary publishing.” —The Atlantic “Possibly the richest source in the entire world of great books you never heard of.” You are receiving this message because you signed up for newsletters from The New York Review or New York Review Books. You can choose the types of messages you wish to receive: |
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