@book {cheng-en_monkey_1961,
	title = {Monkey},
	year = {1961},
	note = {THE 413},
	publisher = {Penguin Books},
	organization = {Penguin Books},
	address = {Harmondsworth},
	abstract = {
Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch{\textquoteright}{\^e}ng-{\^e}n{\textquoteright}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 travellers come up against the dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards that threaten to prevent them in their quest. Wu Ch{\textquoteright}{\^e}ng-{\^e}n 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. 

Arthur Waley{\textquoteright}s humorous and energetic translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the story{\textquoteright}s background in history and legend, its elements of anti-bureaucratic satire and the allegorical nature of its characters },
	keywords = {Belletristik, China, Roman, Theorie},
	issn = {978-0140441116 },
	author = {CH{\textquoteright}{\'E}NG-{\'E}N, WU and Waley({\"U}bersetzer), Arthur}
}
