Reading The Tale of Genji | Alexandria
Read The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Probing humanity's darkness through fiction, this 11th century masterwork confronts how desire drives self-deception. The Tale of Genji exposed the ego's shadow centuries before Freud, revealing how we craft pretty lies to justify ugly truths - a mirror modern readers still find unnervingly accurate. Murasaki saw through social masks to expose universal human nature.