The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World Kemme StevePevná vazba
"Lafcadio Hearn understands contemporary Japan better, and makes us understand it better than any other writer, because he loves it better." --Basil Hall Chamberlain
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"Lafcadio Hearn understands contemporary Japan better, and makes us understand it better than any other writer, because he loves it better." --Basil Hall Chamberlain
Born in...
"Lafcadio Hearn understands contemporary Japan better, and makes us understand it better than any other writer, because he loves it better." --Basil Hall Chamberlain
Born in Greece and abandoned as a child, Lafcadio Hearn lived the life of an exile. He travelled the world and became a famous writer but always felt like an outsider--in Dublin, London, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and French-speaking Martinique. To him, none of these places felt like home.
Hearn's life in America was punctuated by a string of successes and failures. In Cincinnati he became the city's best-known crime reporter but was fired after marrying a black woman. Devastated, he moved to New Orleans, where he championed French Creole and Caribbean culture in pieces for Harper's and Scribners--and created a new image for the city as a place of voodoo and debauchery (the image which many
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