Monkey

ISBN: 9780140441116

出版社: Penguin Classics

出版年: 1994-3-1

页数: 352

定价: USD 10.95

装帧: Paperback

原作名: 西游记

内容简介

Monkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures accompanied by his three unruly disciples: the greedy pig creature Pipsy, the river monster Sandy and Monkey. Hatched from a stone egg and given the secrets of heaven and earth, the irrepressible trickster Monkey can ride on the clouds, become invisible and transform into other shapes skills that prove very useful when the four travellers come up against the dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards that threaten to prevent them in their quest. Wu Ch'eng-en wrote Monkey in the mid-sixteenth century, adding his own distinctive style to an ancient Chinese legend, and in so doing created a dazzling combination of nonsense with profundity, slapstick comedy with spiritual wisdom.

作者简介

吴承恩，字汝忠，号射阳山人。淮安府山阳县（今江苏淮安）人。他生活在明代中叶，约当公元1500年到1582年间；出生在一个由文职小官僚而沦落为小商人的家庭。他极好读书，但常遭官府吏胥敲诈，对社会现实颇为不满。

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