Beongcheon Yu

Beongcheon Yu (29 December 1925 – 23 November 2022) 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.

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Reprinted 1969 by C. E. Tuttle (Tokyo). . LCCN 76446909. . Reprinted 1982 by Putnam (New York). . LCCN 81015429. .