Pierre Loti was the pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923), a French naval officer and author, known for his exotic novels and stories. Born into a Protestant family in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, he entered the naval school in Brest at 17 and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906 and in 1910 he went on the reserve list. His literary career began after fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel some passages from his diary concerning his ... Read More
Pierre Loti was the pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923), a French naval officer and author, known for his exotic novels and stories. Born into a Protestant family in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, he entered the naval school in Brest at 17 and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906 and in 1910 he went on the reserve list. His literary career began after fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel some passages from his diary concerning his curious experiences in Constantinople. The result was the anonymously published Aziyade (1879), part romance, part autobiography, in what was to become his signature style. In 1880 he published Rarahu, later reprinted as Le Mariage de Loti, a Polynesian idyl based on the two months he had spent in Tahiti in 1872 where he had "gone native". In 1882 he issued a collection of shorter pieces - three stories and a travel essay - entitled Fleurs d'ennui, and the following year achieved wider public recognition with his critically acclaimed Mon Frere Yves, a novel describing the life of a French naval officer. His 1886 novel of life among Breton fisherfolk, Pecheur d'Islande (An Iceland Fisherman), has been described as the finest of all his writing, adapting some of the Impressionist techniques of contemporary painters like Monet into prose, and it is a classic of French literature. Madame Chrysantheme, a novel of Japanese manners and a precursor to Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon, combining both narrative and travelogue, appeared in 1887. His fictionalized account of his childhood, Le Roman d'un enfant (1890), greatly influenced Marcel Proust, and in 1891 Loti was elected to the Academie francaise. He produced many more books based around his travels to such locations as Morocco, the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Loti died in Hendaye and was interred on the island of Oleron with a state funeral. Ramuntcho (1897) is a love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France and is one of Loti's most popular stories, with four film adaptations between 1919-59. Loti conceived the idea for the book after taking command of the gunboat Javelot at Hendaye in 1891, watching the French-Spanish border at the mouth of the Bidassoa, an area where smuggling was particularly prevalent. Reprinted from the English translation by Henri Pene du Bois. Read Less
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. 12mo, green cloth binding, leather spine. Corners bumped, cloth is worn. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. In French language. Green clothbound. Gilt on backstrip. Internally clean. Some foxing on endpapers. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN:
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Medium 8vo. Blue patterned cloth boards with black leather quarter binding, with blind borders and gilt lettering. Minor amount of shelfwear mostly to the edges of backstrip. Half title page has a small tear. Interior, apart from inscriptions on end papers, is secure and clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
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