Two Years in the French: West Indies [Lingua Inglese]: No 1 - Brossura

Hearn, Lafcadio

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1902669177 ISBN 13: 9781902669175

Casa editrice: Signal Books, 2000

Riassunto

In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique. Intending to stay for a few months, he remained for two years. He viewed French-ruled Martinique as an exotic fusion of European, African and Asian influences, the Creole society par exellence. Describing the island's landscape, its flora and fauna, its colonial architecture and rural villages, he provides a picture of a Caribbean colony where slavery was a recent memory and race an all-importan matter of identity. First published in 1890, this work also offers an evocation of the doomed city of Saint Pierre, devastated 12 years later in a volcanic eruption. Hearn also presents insights into the daily lives of Martinicans. Exploring their folk tales, music and Creole language, he portrays a world of sensuality and mystery, in which traditional storytelling conjures up a dimension of sorcery, ghosts and zombies.

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Recensione:

Hearn is a passionate observer and a passionate sensualist...to the 20th century reader he provides an unparalleled evocation of a way of life, as well as a city (St. Pierre), that has long since disappeared. --Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

Born in Greece to a Greek mother and Anglo-Irish father, LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904) was brought up in Dublin, where he suffered a number of childhood tragedies. Moving to the United States in 1869, he worked as a journalist and translator, before settling in Japan in 1890. There he married, became a Japanese citizen and wrote the influential Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894) and Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904).

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• Editore: Signal Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1902669177
• ISBN 13: 9781902669175
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384