Taking up the character from Letters from Ogura, this text is not a continuation but rather a sort of immersed part. It evokes the wanderings of the old lady after she became a ghost. She lost her body but nevertheless kept her kindness and naivety.
(...) A simple yet engaging story that brings us back to or introduces us to Hubert Delahaye's original style. (...)
Hubert Delahaye's delicate pen has lost none of its poetry or lightness to describe this evanescent atmosphere and nostalgia for a world gone forever.
Delicate, tender, sensitive and often close to the heart, “Fantômes d’Ogura” unfurls the range of tastes in people and small things, universal human relationships and the simple pleasures to be found in nature or in observing everyday life, and ends with a subtly brought and beautifully crafted ending.
Hubert Delahaye spent his professional life at the Collège de France in the field of sinology. He was attached to the Chair of Social and Intellectual History of China by Jacques Gernet then at the Institutes of the Far East as Lecturer. It was only natural that he was also interested in the neighbors Japanese, these islanders so close to the Chinese and at the same time so different ...