Butterflies do not understand physical or mental boundaries they only fly freely. Benjamin Lacombe 's illustrations neither. Able to cross the limits of time and cultures with the imagination it presents “ Ghost Stories of Japan ” by Lafcadio Hearn traditional stories published for the first time in English in . A work that has the virtue of returning the magic of the newly discovered to these old Yōkai stories. Specters apparitions monsters demons goblins that travel through the pages of Lacombe's new book as if they were butterflies that have just emerged from their cocoons of time.
Old stories that recover all the hypnotizing power they had the first day they were told. This French illustrator has specialized in building new symbolic universes for great classics such as The Butterfly Lovers Macabre Tales Alice in Wonderland CXB Directory Madam Butterfly Frida Carmen or The Wizard of Oz . The text remains the classic essential and immutable over time but when accompanied by new illustrations precious editions and visual games full of beauty and symbolism it relocates them to the collective imagination of the st century.
These days Lacombe has been presenting in Spain his particular vision of "Ghost Stories from Japan" by Lafcadio Hearn published by Edelvives. In this work Lacombe puts a face to evil spirits devourers of corpses flying heads or nocturnal apparitions belonging to Japanese tradition. A selection of eleven stories written by Hearn at the end of the th century which more than a hundred years later Benjamin Lacombe with his illustrations is also able to turn them into our nightmares. Montero and Romero | On the cover of this “Ghost Story of Japan” book mysterious butterflies are born from inside a person.
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