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Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey is one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature, translated by Arthur Waley in Penguin Classics. 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…

One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition. A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he can transform himself into whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain. Five hundred years later, Monkey…

«Путешествие на Запад» — один из четырёх классических романов на китайском языке. Опубликован в 1590-е годы без указания автора. В XX веке утвердилось мнение, что написал его книжник У Чэнъэнь.

Пересказ Борхесом отрывка из романа У Чэнъэня «Путешествие на Запад» (гл. 10). Однажды во сне императору явился дракон и умолял о защите: на следующий день звёздами суждено ему погибнуть от руки императорского министра Вэй Чжэна. Император во сне обещал защитить дракона...