《安娜·卡列尼娜》还在我的书单上放着，但我当年读简·奥斯汀和《源氏物语》的套路是这样的：每晚只看一章。我以前的 AP 文学老师给过我这个建议，说你得把这些书当肥皂剧来看，因为它们写作时的构思思路就是一样的。
Anna Karenia is still on my list, but here's what I did for Jane Austen and the Tale of Genji: Just read one chapter a night. My old AP Lit teacher gave me that advice, said you need to treat these books like a soap opera, because they're written with the same idea in mind.
> the oldest extant novel The Tale of Genji is now generally considered to hold that title. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/11480.aspx
If you get into classic Japanese literature then have some fun and start at the beginning with Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji written about a thousand years ago. From around 1905 after the Russo-Japanese war when Japan was starting to feel good about itself you have Natsume Sōseki's I am a Cat. As Yet I have No Name but it all…
I hope that this thread doesn't get derailed into nit-picking. The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century. The Golden Ass is a prose work which Apuleius wrote in the second century. Different authorities will have different definitions of the word "novel," so let's just…
《源氏物语》《美丽新世界》
Tale of Genji Brave New World
《安娜·卡列尼娜》还在我的书单上放着，但我当年读简·奥斯汀和《源氏物语》的套路是这样的：每晚只看一章。我以前的 AP 文学老师给过我这个建议，说你得把这些书当肥皂剧来看，因为它们写作时的构思思路就是一样的。
Anna Karenia is still on my list, but here's what I did for Jane Austen and the Tale of Genji: Just read one chapter a night. My old AP Lit teacher gave me that advice, said you need to treat these books like a soap opera, because they're written with the same idea in mind.
“……现存最古老的长篇小说”《源氏物语》如今普遍被公认为享有这一头衔。http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/11480.aspx
> the oldest extant novel The Tale of Genji is now generally considered to hold that title. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/11480.aspx
如果你想了解日本古典文学，不妨找点乐子，从大约一千年前紫式部写的《源氏物语》开始入门。而从日俄战争后日本开始自我感觉良好的 1905 年左右开始，你就可以看夏目漱石的《我是猫》了。还没起名字呢，不过这一切……
If you get into classic Japanese literature then have some fun and start at the beginning with Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji written about a thousand years ago. From around 1905 after the Russo-Japanese war when Japan was starting to feel good about itself you have Natsume Sōseki's I am a Cat. As Yet I have No Name but it all…
虽然你说的机会问题可能是真的，但《源氏物语》可是由一位日本女性写出来的。它通常被认为是人类历史上第一部长篇小说。
While what you say about opportunities may be true, The Tale of Genji was written by a Japanese woman. It's often considered the first novel.
希望这个帖子别歪楼成抠字眼撕逼。《源氏物语》写于十一世纪。阿普列乌斯的《金驴记》是公元二世纪的散文作品。不同学者对“小说”一词的定义本来就各有不同，所以咱们还是……
I hope that this thread doesn't get derailed into nit-picking. The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century. The Golden Ass is a prose work which Apuleius wrote in the second century. Different authorities will have different definitions of the word "novel," so let's just…