Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 27. Juni 1850 |
Geburtsort | Lefkada, United States of the Ionian Islands |
Todesort | Empire_of_Japan |
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Beschreibung | Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲, 27. Juni 1850 - 26. September 1904), geboren als Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜːrn/; griechisch: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χέρν, romanisiert: Patríkios Lefkádios Chérn, irisch: Pádraig Lafcadio O'hEarain) war ein irisch-griechisch-japanischer Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Lehrer, der die Kultur und Literatur Japans im Westen bekannt machte. Seine Schriften boten einen beispiellosen Einblick in die japanische Kultur, insbesondere seine Sammlungen von Legenden und Geistergeschichten, wie Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Bevor er nach Japan zog und die japanische Staatsbürgerschaft annahm, arbeitete er als Journalist in den Vereinigten Staaten, vor allem in Cincinnati und New Orleans. Bekannt sind auch seine Schriften über New Orleans, die auf seinem jahrzehntelangen Aufenthalt dort basieren. |
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
