American Writings
Some Chinese Ghosts / Chita / Two Years in the French West Indies / Youma / selected journalism and letters
(Sprache: Englisch)
Featuring a wide range of writings from Hearn s time in America, this collection is a stunning showcase of the Greek-Irish author s uniquely decadent literary flair and keen eye for observation
A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the...
A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the...
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Featuring a wide range of writings from Hearn s time in America, this collection is a stunning showcase of the Greek-Irish author s uniquely decadent literary flair and keen eye for observationA translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-consciously decadent literary style, but he was also a tough-minded and keenly observant reporter, with an eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and occasionally the gruesome. The writings of his American years collected in this Library of America volume on subjects as wide ranging as comparative folklore, the history of musical instruments, French literary avant-gardes, and New Orleans voodoo reveal an omnivorous curiosity and an always eclectic sensibility.
Some Chinese Ghosts (1887), a stylized retelling of ancient legends, foreshadows Hearn's later fascination with Asian themes. The exquisitely crafted novels Chita (1889), about the devastation wrought by a Louisiana hurricane,and Youma (1890), about a slave rebellion in Martinique, epitomize his writing at its most luxuriantly romantic, alert to the interactions of diverse cultures and suffused with imagistic splendor. His extraordinary travel book Two Years in the French West Indies (1890), presented here with the many illustrations from its first edition, provides a richly impressionistic account of his long stay on Martinique and other Caribbean islands. Also included are personal letters as well as more than a dozen examples of Hearn's journalism from the 1870s and 1880s, depicting vividly: a raucous African-American nightclub on the Cincinnati waterfront; an execution; scenes of Mardi Gras and the New Orleans French Quarter; an uncharted village of Filipino fishermen in a remote Louisiana bayou.
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Autoren-Porträt von Lafcadio Hearn
A singular figure in American letters, Lafcadio Hearn (1850 1904) had a life as complex as his heritage. Born in the Ionian Islands to a Greek mother and an Irish father, he was abandoned by his parents, raised in boarding schools, and then sent penniless to the United States, where he began a career as a newspaper journalist. After earning a measure of literary fame in his adopted country, he moved permanently to Japan, where he became a leading interpreter of Japanese ways for a Western audience.Christopher Benfey, volume editor, is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His books include The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992), Degas in New Orleans (1997), The Great Wave (2003), and A Summer of Hummingbirds (2008).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lafcadio Hearn
- 2009, 848 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Library of America
- ISBN-10: 1598530399
- ISBN-13: 9781598530391
Sprache:
Englisch
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