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Author(s): Richard M. Berrong
ISBN(s): 9781780239958, 1780239955
Edition: Illustrated
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Year: 2018
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1780239955

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Author: Richard M. Berrong

Few authors have led lives as interesting as that enjoyed by French novelist and travel writer Pierre Loti (1850–1923)—and still fewer have worked so hard to make their lives appear even more romantic than they already were. As a career officer in the French navy, Loti participated in expeditions that took him to locales which even today seem exotic, giving rise to four decades of novels, travelogues, and autobiographical narratives, some of which went through hundreds of editions in France and were translated into dozens of languages. And as Richard M. Berrong reveals in this colorful biography, the extravagances of Loti’s often very public private life were as interesting as his art.

With Loti’s financial and artistic success came notoriety, which he delighted in enhancing by staging elaborate costume balls—to which (as one does) he invited the photographic press. The artistically inclined royalty of his day, including Princess Alice of Monaco and Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, sought him out as confidant. Sarah Bernhardt had him write plays for her. And although his parties and hobnobbing with titled nobility hurt his standing as a serious author in his later years, they can do nothing to diminish the legacy of an artist whom Henry James hailed as a “remarkable genius,” “the companion, beyond all others, of my own selection,” and whose writing led Willa Cather to confess “she would swoon with joy if anyone saw traces of Loti in her work.” 

Pierre Loti 2018 CRITICAL LIVES 1st Table of contents:

1: The Idyllic Years (1850–65)

2: Times of Crisis, Times of Decision (1865–6)

3: Paris in the 1860s

4: In the Navy (1867–77)

5: A Successful Author – and Alter-ego – Is Born (1877–81)

6: The Writer Becomes a Self-conscious Artist (1882–6)

7: Art, Memory and the Use of One to Highlight the Other (1886–90)

8: Life at the Top (1891–1900)

9: A Feminist in Spite of Himself? (1900–1906)

10: Loti the Turkophile (1907–14)

11: Diplomat and War Correspondent (1914–18)

12: Last Years (1919–23)

13: Life after Death (1923–?)

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