The Story of Yang Guifei

By Yasushi Inoue

1963

First Published

3.43

Average Rating

260

Number of Pages

7H56M

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L'histoire des tragiques amours de l'empereur Siuan-tsong (empereur des T'ang au VIIIe siècle) et de Yang Kouei-fei est aussi célèbre en Chine que celle de Tristan et Yseult en Occident. Dans ce livre qui se lit comme un roman d'aventures, la Chine médiévale s'anime sous le talent d'Inoue, avec en toile de fond la vie luxueuse et apparemment insouciante du palais et les intrigues autour de ministres sanguinaires, de généraux ambitieux, d'eunuques intrigants ou de concubines habiles. En arrière-plan des jeux de pouvoir, les incursions barbares aux frontières cernent la cour d'un danger toujours pressant. Roman historique où l'on reconnaît le souci constant d'exactitude et de vérité.

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3.43

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Author

Yasushi Inoue

Author · 19 books

Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life—Japan of the early to mid twentieth century—in revealing perspective. 1936 Chiba Kameo Prize —- Ruten,流転 1950 Akutagawa Prize —- Tōgyu,闘牛 1957 Ministry of Education Prize for Literature —- The Roof Tile of Tempyo,天平の甍 1959 Mainichi Press Prize —- Tun-huang,敦煌 1963 Yomiuri Prize —- Fūtō,風濤 (from Wikipedia)