The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn
Autor Delia Labarreen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2021
With virtually no training in art of any kind, Hearn began creating his illustrations partly to boost the circulation of a small daily newspaper in a competitive market. He believed in the power of satirical cartoons to communicate big ideas in small spaces--in particular, to reveal the habits, prejudices, and delusions of the current generation. Blind in his left eye (since a boyhood accident) and severely myopic in his right, Hearn nonetheless painstakingly carved out drawings on wood blocks with a penknife to be printed alongside his articles on the newspaper's letterpress. Hearn developed, from the first of these woodcuts to the last, a unique style that expressed the full range of his wit, from razor-sharp condemnation to tender affection.
Hearn had a keen eye for the absurd, along with an extraordinary ability to modulate his criticism and praise in a continuum from cauterizing vitriol to palliative balm, from the heaviest sarcasm to the lightest wit. In the pieces collected here, there can be found a unifying thread: Hearn's love/hate relationship with the virtues and vices of New Orleans, a city that continually amused and amazed him. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Lafcadio Hearn immigrated to the United States as a teenager and became a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he married a black woman, an act that was illegal at the time, the newspaper fired him and Hearn relocated to New Orleans. In the early 1880s his contributions to national publications (like Harper's Weekly and Scribners Magazine) helped mold the popular image of New Orleans as a colorful place of decadence and hedonism. In 1888, Hearn left New Orleans for Japan, where he took the name Koizumi Yakumo and worked as a teacher, journalist, and writer. And it may come to pass that I shall have stranger things to tell you; for this is a land of magical moons and of witches and of warlocks; and were I to tell you all that I have seen and heard in these years in this enchanted City of Dreams you would verily deem me mad rather than morbid. --Lafcadio Hearn, 1880, describing New Orleans in a letter to a friend
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780807176948
ISBN-10: 080717694X
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Adnotată
Editura: Lsu Press
ISBN-10: 080717694X
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Adnotată
Editura: Lsu Press
Notă biografică
Delia LaBarre is editor of the 2003 edition of Hearn's novel Chita: A Memory of Last Island and is founder of the Lafcadio Hearn/Koizumi International Center in New Orleans.