{{Notability|date=April 2023}} {{One source|date=April 2023}} {{Short description|Korean translator and author (1925–2022)}} '''Beongcheon Yu''' (29 December 1925 – 23 November 2022) ({{korean|hangul=유병천}}) was a Korean-born translator of Natsume Sōseki's novel ''The Wayfarer'' and author of a critical study on Natsume. Yu was born in Korea on 29 December 1925, a twenty-eighth generation descendent in the Yu Clan of Chungju. He was selected to attend the Dai-Ichi-Koto Gakko (the First Higher School), now part of the University of Tokyo. He graduated with his BA in French literature from Seoul National University in 1948. He received his MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1954 and his PhD in English from Brown University in 1958. Known for his critical analyses of Hemingway, Melville, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, the Korean authors Han Yong-Un and Yi Gwangsu, and the life and writings of Lafcadio Hearn, he also wrote about the impact of orientalism on western literature. He wrote a review of Herman Melville's ''Moby Dick'', "Ishmael's Equal Eye: The Source of Balance in ''Moby Dick''." Yu was professor emeritus in English at Wayne State University.
Yu died in Paris on 23 November 2022, at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite web |title=Beongcheon Yu death notice |url=https://www.simplifia.fr/avis-de-deces/beongcheon-yu-paris |website=Simplifia |access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref>
==Works==
===Original works===
====English-language====
=====Books===== * {{cite thesis |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = An ape of gods; the art and thought of Lafcadio Hearn |degree=Ph.D. |publisher = Brown University |location = Providence, Rhode Island |year = 1958 |oclc = 23760480 }} :: {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = An ape of gods; the art and thought of Lafcadio Hearn |publisher = Wayne State University Press |location = Detroit |year = 1964 |lccn = 64010090 |oclc = 2521170 |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000436298 }} * {{cite book |last1 = Yu |first1 = Beongcheon |last2 = Nihon Eibun Gakkai [English Literary Society of Japan] |title = Lafcadio Hearn's aesthetics of organic memory |publisher = [Nihon Eibungakkai] |location = Tokyo |year = 1961 |oclc = 39468940 |postscript =. Reprinted from ''Studies in English Literature'', v. 38 no. 1, November 1961. }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Lafcadio Hearn's twice-told legends reconsidered |year = 1962 |oclc = 16782341 |postscript =. Reprinted from ''American Literature'', vol. 34, no. 1, March 1962. }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Natsume Soseki |publisher = Twayne |location = New York |year = 1969 |series = Twayne's world authors series, Japan; TWAS 99 |oclc = 73184 |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001184849 }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Akutagawa: an introduction |publisher = Wayne State University Press |location = Detroit |year = 1972 |lccn = 75037579 |oclc = 219733 |isbn = 978-0-8143-1467-8 |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001184826 }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism |pages = 109–131 |editor = Linda Wagner-Martin |publisher = Michigan State University Press |location = East Lansing |year = 1974 |isbn = 978-0-8701-3182-0 }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = The Great Circle : American Writers And The Orient |publisher = Wayne State University Press |location = Detroit |year = 1983 |lccn = 83014811 |oclc = 9785554 |isbn = 978-0-8143-1737-2 |url = https://archive.org/details/greatcircleameri00yube |url-access = registration }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Han Yong-un & Yi Kwang-su: two pioneers of modern Korean literature |publisher = Wayne State University Press |location = Detroit |year = 1992 |lccn = 91021779 |oclc = 24010135 |isbn = 978-0-8143-2354-0 }}
=====Papers===== * {{cite journal | year = 1965 | title = Ishmael's Equal Eye: The Source of Balance in Moby-Dick | journal = ELH | volume = 32 | issue = 1 | pages = 110–125 | publisher = The Johns Hopkins University Press | jstor = 2872374 | doi = 10.2307/2872374 | last1 = Yu | first1 = Beongcheon }} * {{cite journal | year = 1967 | title = Lafcadio Hearn (Or Koizumi Yakumo) (1850-1904) | journal = American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 52–55 | publisher = University of Illinois Press | jstor = 27747562 | last1 = Yu | first1 = Beongcheon }} * {{cite journal | year = 1968 | title = Literary and Art Theories in Japan by Makoto Ueda | journal = The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | volume = 26 | issue = 4 | pages = 540–541 | publisher = The American Society for Aesthetics | jstor = 428323 | doi = 10.2307/428323 }} * {{cite journal | year = 1975 | title = The Perspective from Korean Literature | journal = The Journal of Asian Studies | volume = 35 | issue = 1 | pages = 126–128 | publisher = Association of Asian Studies | jstor = 2054049 | doi = 10.2307/2054049 | last1 = Yu | first1 = Beongcheon | s2cid = 165821377 | doi-access = free }}
====Korean-language==== * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Inyŏndo : Hyŏnmuk chei tanpʻyŏnjip ({{korean|因緣圖 : 玄黙第二短篇集}}) |publisher = Chaedong Munhwasa |location = Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi |year = 1984 |lccn = 86145148 |oclc = 15428296 |postscript =. {{in lang|ko}} Short stories. }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Kongnyŏ : Hyŏnmuk chei hŭigokchip ({{korean|貢女 : 玄默第二戲曲集}}) |publisher = Chaedong Munhwasa |location = Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi |year = 1984 |lccn = 86178066 |oclc = 18869609 |postscript =. {{in lang|ko}} Plays. }} * {{cite book |last = Yu |first = Beongcheon |title = Aebigeil: Yu Pyŏng-chʻŏn changpʻyŏn sosŏl ({{korean|애비게일 : 유병천장편소설}}) |publisher = Ŭryu Munhwasa |location = Sŏul-si |year = 1992 |lccn = 98452169 |oclc = 32758598 |isbn = 978-89-324-7034-4 |postscript =. {{in lang|ko}} }}
===Translations=== * {{cite book |last = Sōseki |first = Natsume |others = Trans. with an introd. by Beongcheon Yu |title = Kōjin |trans-title=The wayfarer |publisher = Wayne State University Press |location = Detroit |year = 1967 |lccn = 66026974 |oclc = 1039994 |isbn = 978-0-8143-1318-3 |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001184841 }} :: Reprinted 1969 by C. E. Tuttle (Tokyo). {{ISBN|978-4-8053-0204-0}}. LCCN [http://lccn.loc.gov/76446909 76446909]. {{OCLC|813492505}}. :: Reprinted 1982 by Putnam (New York). {{ISBN|978-0-399-50612-3}}. LCCN [http://lccn.loc.gov/81015429 81015429]. {{OCLC|7837743}}.
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