par Chahta-ima (de la Louisiane) p.126-129.ġst edition, 16mo. in: Rouquette: "La Nouvelle Atala ou la fille de l'Esprit. review of Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette: "La Nouvelle Atala". Includes introduction, history, bibliography, and notes by Jon Christopher Hughes.Ī Louisiana Idyl. His illustrations here are both cartoons and also serious illustrations. Farny was later an illustrator for Harper's and then a painter of Indians of the West.
At the time of publication, Hearn and Farny were both in their 20's and their reputations were not yet established. Lafcadio Hearn and Henry Farny: This is a perfect facsimile with all 9 issues of this unique publication. Crossroads Books and Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Ye Giglampz, nine numbers of a weekly paper. edited by Lafcadio Hearn and Henry Farny. Ye Giglampz: a weekly illustrated journal devoted to art, literature and satire. ’Ĭlarimonde and Other Stories contains: ‘Introduction’ by Brian Stableford, ‘Onuphrius’, ‘Two Actors for One Part’, ‘Omphale’, ‘Clarimonde’, ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’, ‘The Opium Pipe’, ‘The Duplicated Knight’, ‘The Mummy’s Foot’, ‘King Candaules’, ‘Arria Marcella’, ‘Jettatura’, ‘Avatar’, and various addenda.Ĭlarimonde and Other Stories is a sewn hardback of 366+xiii pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.Hearn's Works (chronological by year of first publication) a key writer in the evolution of fantastic fiction from its Gothic roots to its psychological sophistication, whose importance in the middle part of the nineteenth century. Most of the translations are by the Irish-American writer Lafcadio Hearn, and retain the ardent extravagance of Gautier’s original French style.Īs Brian Stableford says in his new Introduction, ‘Gautier remains. The twelve stories in this volume represent the best of Gautier’s fantastic tales and deal with a wide range of supernatural phenomena, including identity exchange (in ‘Avatar’), vampirism, time travel, the evil eye, and the decadence of ancient Egypt (in ‘One of Cleopatra’s Nights’).
Gautier’s trail-blazing manifesto for Romanticism was taken up by numerous other writers, most notably by Charles Baudelaire, who in 1857 dedicated Les Fleurs du mal to him. Hoffman, adding an erotic effusiveness all his own. A pioneer of the genre, Gautier (1811-1872) garnered his initial enthusiasm for supernatural literature from the stories of E.TA. If you appreciate supernatural French Decadence, then you need look no further than Clarimonde and Other Stories by Théophile Gautier.
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