In Hearn was commissioned to go to Japan, but shortly after arriving there he quarreled with his publisher and found himself unemployed. For a while he taught English at a government school in Matsue and freelanced newspaper articles. His life in Japan was greatly enhanced by his marriage to Setsuko Koizumi, whose family adopted him.
As Yakumo Koizumi, Hearn found his final nationality and an estimable academic position as professor of literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo. During this happy period Hearn composed his best prose—minute examinations of Japan, its people, and its folkways: An Attempt at Interpretation He died in Okubo, Japan, on Sept 26, McWilliams, Lafcadio Hearn , is the important biography.
Kunst, Lafcadio Hearn For perceptive criticism see Nina H. A Bibliography of His Writings , is reliable but incomplete. Ball, Charles Edward, Lafcadio Hearn: Bellair, John, In Hearn's footsteps: Cott, Jonathan, Wandering ghost: Knopf, ; New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, Hearn, Lafcadio, Lafcadio Hearn: Japan Library; New York: Distributed in the U.
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Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia. Handicapped by partial blindness, Hearn was a colorful, imaginative, but morbidly discontented man, who was most admired for his sensitive use of language in writing about the macabre and in creating strange exotic moods. Hearn first attracted attention with the originality and highly polished style of his "Fantastics," a series of weird sketches that appeared in a New Orleans paper.
His first published book was One of Cleopatra's Nights , a translation of six Gautier stories.
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In he went to Japan to write a series of articles for an American publisher. There he spent the rest of his life, writing what is considered his best work. He married a Japanese woman, taught in Japanese universities, and became a Japanese citizen in , taking the name Yakumo Koizumi.
An Attempt at Interpretation are most memorable. See biography by E. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Japan: In a relatively short life of fifty-four years, Lafcadio Hearn managed to have several different literary lives.
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In Hearn went to New Orleans to write a series of articles on Louisiana politics for the Commercial and remained there, writing for the Item later the Times-Democrat , contributing translations of French authors, original stories and sketches, and adaptations from foreign literature. His growing interest in the esoteric and oriental was evident in other books of his New Orleans era, Stray leaves from stray literature and Some Chinese ghosts ; he also fell under the influence of the philosopher Herbert Spencer at this time.
His editorials ranged from scientific topics to articles on anti-Semitism in Russia and France. Chita , an adventure novel about the only survivor of a tidal wave, dates from this time. He soon broke with the magazine and worked as a schoolteacher in Izumo in northern Japan. In four books written during this time— Exotics and Retrospective , In Ghostly Japan , Shadowings , and A Japanese Miscellany —he is informative about the customs, religion, and literature of Japan.
Kwaidan is a collection of stories of the supernatural and translations of haiku poetry. Three of the ghost stories formed the basis of a critically praised Japanese film, Kwaidan, in Open Preview See a Problem?
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Celebrated for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, as well as writings about the city of New Orleans, Hearn produced a diverse and inimitable range of works. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn.
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