Lafcadio Hearn was born on 27 June 1850 in Lefkada and died on 26 September 1904 (writer, novelist, screenwriter, poet, literary critic).
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher who helped introduce the culture and literature of Japan to the Western world. Born on the Greek island of Lefkada, he was taken to Dublin, where his mother, his father, and finally his father's aunt, his appointed guardian, all abandoned him. At nineteen he emigrated to the United States and worked as a newspaper reporter, first in Cincinnati and then in New Orleans, where he spent a decade and wrote works that remain well known. He was then sent as a correspondent to Martinique for two years. In 1890 he went to Japan, where he stayed for the rest of his life, took the name Yakumo Koizumi, became a Japanese citizen, and married Setsuko Koizumi, with whom he had four children. His collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan, gave unprecedented insight into Japanese culture.
Books and Habits gathers lectures Lafcadio Hearn gave to Japanese students at the University of Tokyo, introduced by John Erskine as an interpretation of Western civilization for the East. Hearn begins with the Western reverence …
See detailsLafcadio Hearn was born on 27 June 1850 in Lefkada and died on 26 September 1904 (writer, novelist, screenwriter, poet, literary critic).
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher who helped introduce the culture and literature of Japan to the Western world. Born on the Greek island of Lefkada, he was taken to Dublin, where his mother, his father, and finally his father's aunt, his appointed guardian, all abandoned him. At nineteen he emigrated to the United States and worked as a newspaper reporter, first in Cincinnati and then in New Orleans, where he spent a decade and wrote works that remain well known. He was then sent as a correspondent to Martinique for two years. In 1890 he went to Japan, where he stayed for the rest of his life, took the name Yakumo Koizumi, became a Japanese citizen, and married Setsuko Koizumi, with whom he had four children. His collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan, gave unprecedented insight into Japanese culture.
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Books and Habits gathers lectures Lafcadio Hearn gave to Japanese students at the University of Tokyo, introduced by John Erskine as an interpretation of Western civilization for the East. Hearn begins with the Western reverence …
See detailsLived: 1850 – 1904 · Victorian era
The book belongs to the Victorian age, the long reign of Queen Victoria, when society prized a high standard of personal conduct and an emphasis on morality that spurred reform while also limiting some people's liberty. It was a time of widening literacy, with childhood education becoming near-universal in Great Britain for the first time, and of great scientific and technological progress. Britain was then the lead…
Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio HearnRead today, in this edition, these lectures are best taken as a document of a particular act of translation. Hearn, a Greek and Irish writer, translator and teacher who became a Japanese citizen, addressed Japanese students at the University of Tokyo and tried to interpret Western civilization for the East. His own life suits that task. He was born on Lefkada, raised in Dublin, worked as a journalist in Cincinnati a…
Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn