SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Lafcadio Hearn Friends for faraway places  Jun 14, 2008 Off the beaten track, Kobo Abe's perfectly executed The Woman in the Dunes (Penguin Modern Classics) will teach you to watch your step in the dunes near Matsue, one-time home to the folklorist Lafcadio Hearn, whose anthology of folk tales, Kwaidan (Stone Bridge Press), is dated but still worth a look. Shusaku Endo's masterly Silence (Peter Owen) will enrich a trip to Nagasaki or the rugged Goto Islands with its account of a Portuguese Jesuit who defies the bans on foreigners and Christianity in... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts) The pathos of things  Nov 24, 2007 This reading was given at the Lafcadio Hearn lecture in 2000 and is included in Our Shared Japan, edited by Irene De Angelis and Joseph Woods, published by Dedalus, price 30. . (Guardian Unlimited -- Books) Foreign observer  Feb 21, 2007 Matsue, the city in which Lafcadio Hearn, also known as Yakumo Koizumi, conjured ancient tales of gods and ghosts ... His great-grandfather was Lafcadio Hearn, the Irish- Greek author whose wanderings brought him here after a career as a muckraking journalist in the United States ... "Lafcadio Hearn is a way for Japan to regain touch with its soul.". (International Herald Tribune) A foreigner links Japan to its soul  Feb 20, 2007 His great-grandfather was Lafcadio Hearn, the Irish-Greek author whose wanderings brought him here after a career as a muckraking journalist in the United States ... "Lafcadio Hearn is a way for Japan to regain touch with its soul.". (International Herald Tribune) Back to Authors News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2008 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2008