Monkey King: Journey to the West

Monkey King: Journey to the West

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Monkey King: Journey to the West
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Monkey King: Journey to the West

Monkey King: Journey to the West

Authors: Wu Cheng’en  , Julia Lovell

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9780143138938
Rs. 699.00
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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.

Tagged with: chinese / classics / fiction / international / Julia Lovell / mythology / translation / Wu Cheng’en

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