Do Katako's and Murasaki's observations, in fact, describe what Dalby herself is doing in re-creating Murasaki's life and her world through the art of historical fiction? How is that different than writing the fictional The Tale of Genji?Ģ. Reality was neither the subject nor object of the tales, for Genji created his own reality". into thinking I could shape reality by my writing.
And Murasaki agrees in her conclusion that she had been "deluded. Once created, it makes its own way without apology, brooking no influence, making friends and enemies on its own".
Katako describes her mother's fiction as "a perverse child.
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