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Exotics and Retrospectives

by Lafcadio Hearn

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  1. Foreword

    1:39

  2. EXOTICS: I Fuji-No-Yama

    48:14

  3. II Insect Musicians

    46:59

  4. III A Question in the Zen Texts

    10:53

  5. IV The Literature of the Dead, Part 1

    42:51

  6. IV The Literature of the Dead, Part 2

    28:33

  7. V Frogs

    19:33

  8. VI Of Moon-Desire

    12:48

  9. RETROSPECTIVES: VII First Impressions

    14:08

  10. VIII Beauty is Memory

    11:47

  11. IX Sadness in Beauty

    10:25

  12. X Parfum de Jeunesse

    5:21

  13. XI Azure Psychology

    14:12

  14. XII A Serenade

    8:53

  15. XIII A Red Sunset

    13:42

  16. XIV Frisson

    12:55

  17. XV Vespertina Cognitio

    20:52

  18. XVI The Eternal Haunter

    8:56

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A climb up Fuji begins Lafcadio Hearn's 1898 collection of essays, placing the sacred mountain beside the practical business of pilgrimage. From an inn at Gotemba, he prepares with experienced guides, warm clothing and a pilgrim's staff before setting out along roads of volcanic sand. His account connects the mountain's appearance with the beliefs, legends and customs surrounding its ascent.

Elsewhere, the sound of frogs in ricefields becomes a way of thinking about how a place lives in memory. Hearn also considers Buddhist inscriptions, explaining the ideas behind their language and the care required to translate them. The second part gathers short reflective pieces about beauty and remembered experience, introduced through a comparison between psychology and Eastern religious thought.

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Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was born in Greece to Irish and Greek parents, worked as a journalist in Cincinnati and New Orleans, then moved to Japan in 1890. He married Koizumi Setsu, took Japanese citizenship, and wrote a shelf of books interpreting the country for Western readers.

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Book facts

First published
1905
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
159
Language
English
Genre
Essays
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
William Gavula, Availle, Larry Wilson and others