uire some help with context, and let the academics, as you say, talk among themselves. However, may I question the oft-repeated characterization of The Tale of Genji as “the world’s first novel”? What do we call the Satyricon of Petronius, which predates it by more than 1000 years? The principal difference I see between them is that portions of the Satyricon are lost.
Perhaps the editors (and Carrier) should get Mur-A-saki’s name right before critiquing the lack of text in the exhibition.
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