His Penguin compilation includes 34 selections, a chronology of Hearn's peripatetic life, some intriguing background information about the sources of the stories, and a number of evocative woodblock prints. Paul Murray, a former Irish diplomat, has been hooked since a 1970s posting in Japan. the stories occupy the reverie world our mind projects onto the backs of our eyelids, where the ordinary mingles with the supernatural The Wall Street JournalĪn extraordinary author. What makes these stories, preserved from ancient times, especially readable today is the preternaturally postmodern form they are given in Hearn's deeply idiosyncratic telling New Yorker A long time ago, in the province of Tamba, there lived a rich merchant named Inamuraya Gensuke. This book insightfully shows how Hearn filtered Japanese ghostly originals through the prism of his own expansive imagination and traumatized experience to create works that were distinctly, and chillingly, his own Japan Times A Dead Secret is a Japanese ghost story published in Hearn's collection, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) Uemura Shen, Jo no Mai dance prelude, 1936. If I liked japanese ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn, what should I read next Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio Kwaidan Japanese Tales of Mystery &. The particular value of Murray's collection is that it leads us in chronological order through a much greater breadth of Hearn's writings on the supernatural in Japan, with ghostly tales selected from 11 of his books. SKU: 9780241381274 Category: FICTION PAPERBACK Tags: 0241381274.
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