100 years

March 14, 2004 9:29 PM

Lafcadio Hearn to Yakumo Koizumi. One hundred years ago there was a Japanese writer from the West.
posted by the fire you left me (6 comments total)

Later archived link.
posted by the fire you left me at 9:30 PM on March 14, 2004

Not a double post, but this thread got me interested in Hearn in the first place. Good resource for additional info.
posted by Hildago at 10:27 PM on March 14, 2004

Wow wow wow. Thank you so much, tfylm.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 11:15 PM on March 14, 2004

Excellent stuff. Lafcadio Hearn wrote some pieces for The Atlantic Monthly, which ran a recent article about his life and works.

Here is a link to a search for "Lafcadio" on The Atlantic Monthly site. The first result is the recent article. Many of the following results link to the actual pieces that Mr. Hearn wrote for The Atlantic.
posted by syzygy at 3:22 AM on March 15, 2004

Slightly OT, how do you pronounce Lafcadio? There's a Roal Dahl book by that name, and my sister and I used to have immense fights over how to say it.

"laf-CA-dio" or "lad-ca-DI-o"? Or something else entirely?
posted by o2b at 8:00 AM on March 15, 2004

"Roald", duh.
posted by o2b at 9:39 AM on March 15, 2004