Name: Kwaidan (in Spanish)
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Author: Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN: 9788478447954

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lafcadio Hearn

Publisher

Siruela

Collection

libros del tiempo

Year

2004

Language

Spanish

Pages

184

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

8478447954

ISBN13

9788478447954

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Kwaidan (in Spanish)"

Lafcadio Hearn (Leucade, Grecia, 1850-okubo, japón, 1904) se educó en Irlanda, Inglaterra y Francia, fue periodista en diversos diarios y revistas estadounidenses y durante dos años fue corresponsal en la Martinica. A raíz de su estancia publicó Two Years in the French West Indies (1890). Viajó a Japón, donde abandonó el periodismo para dedicarse a la docencia universitaria. En 1896 adoptó la nacionalidad japonesa, tras su matrimonio con la hija de un samurái, y la última etapa de su obra está ligada al afán de comprender la sensibilidad y la cultura de este país. Escribió doce volúmenes sobre Japón y Extremo Oriente, entre los que destacan sus versiones de los kwaidan o cuentos fantásticos japoneses, recogidos de fuentes orales o textos antiguos y vertidos en una estilizada prosa inglesa.

Lafcadio Hearn

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(Greece 1850 - Japan 1904), born in Greece to an Irish father and Greek mother, he was raised between Greece and Ireland. At the age of nineteen, he moved to the United States to start his journalism career and later to Japan in 1890, where he would spend the rest of his life as a teacher and writer. He is noted for his narrative and descriptive talent both in his journalistic and literary work. He was one of the first Europeans to introduce Japanese culture to Western readers. His long stay in Japan, combined with his deep knowledge of Japanese culture and traditions and his poetic imagination and narrative style, have secured him a privileged place in the reading community and an even more privileged place in the hearts of the Japanese.

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