Japanese Ghost Stories - Couverture souple

Hearn, Lafcadio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241675294 ISBN 13 : 9780241675298

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2023

Synopsis

The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian; two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave; and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. He is a much celebrated figure in Japan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241675294
• ISBN 13: 9780241675298
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Murray Paul
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