Lafcadio Hearn - Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190): Some Chinese Ghosts / Chita / Two Years in the French West Indies / Youma / selected journalism and letters
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A 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 volumeon subjects as wide ranging as comparative folklore, the history of musical instruments, French literary avant-gardes, and New Orleans voodooreveal an omnivorous curiosity and an always eclectic sensibility.
Some Chinese Ghosts (1887), a stylized retelling of ancient legends, foreshadows Hearns 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 Hearns 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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