Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti ( born January 14, 1850 in Rochefort, Charente -Maritime, † June 10, 1923 in Hendaye, Pyrenees Atlantiques département, Louis Marie Julien Viaud actually ) was a French naval officer and writer. Among his numerous novels include numerous bestsellers of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Life

Loti came from a seafaring family, his father was a ship's doctor. In the literature Lotis addiction is to travel often justified by the death of the elder brother Gustave 14 years in the South Seas, who had lived in Tahiti for four years. Piere Loti visited the French Naval Academy and took an officer of the Navy in 1883 participated in a Tonkin expedition.

1879 published Loti Aziyadé, his first novel set in Istanbul and reflects his passion for the Orient and the Ottoman Empire.

In 1884 he went on a trip to Palestine in order to determine whether his soul, "is one of the tormented this going to end century" can learn in Jerusalem relief through a new spiritual experience. In 1885 published trilogy about the journey he told impressively and in today comprehensible experiences of his failure. 1892 Loti was elected to the Académie française.

In 1900, he was then as adjutant of the Vice Admiral Pottier member of the French expeditionary force to put down the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Loti recurrent theme in his works longing for death and lust for life and is thus a representative of the fin de siècle. Especially in Japan his trilogy ( Madame Chrysanthème, Japoneries de l' automne and La troisième jeunesse de Mme Prune ) takes this aspect into play. With its exotic motifs Loti is, inter alia, Model for Louis Bertrand and Gilbert de Voisins - at the same time he is criticized for his uncritical romanticizing perspective as exotistisch or orientalist. His novel Le Mariage de Loti (1880 ) established a literary exoticism and impressionism of the South Seas, in particular over Tahiti. The bestseller is still regarded as a classic of French exoticism. Many of Loti's works are forgotten today, even though he is one of the most widely read authors of the second half of the 19th century and has influenced a significant part of the French settings to other countries. In this respect his cultural-historical influence is significant. Le Mariage de Loti classics like, Aziyadé or Madame Chrysanthème are still too much -cited works and take in the French literary history, a style- space -in.

On June 10, 1923 Pierre Loti died in Hendaye; he was given a state funeral.

Curiosities

Loti's home in Rochefort on the French Atlantic coast can be visited today. Loti worked all his life in the design and modification of this house - each room taught the passionate history connoisseur, a style of a place or era, for he is especially interested, and put it out exhibits that he over the years during his travels acquired. The house is still in the original condition in which Loti it einrichtete. Inside is everything transformed into unique and impressive way in a fantasy world: Among other things, a reception hall, a knights' hall and a mosque were implemented with attention to detail and using original elements in the walls of this town house - mainly to the bourgeois society of his time and to impress numerous liaisons. There are also contemporary preserved residential areas.

Located in Istanbul's Eyüp café is named on the large Muslim cemetery after Loti. The place is also accessible via a cable car and offers stunning views of Istanbul's neighborhoods on the Golden Horn.

Works

  • Aziyadeh (1990 ) French Aziyadé (1879 )
  • Rarahu, later renamed Le mariage de Loti (1880 )
  • Le roman d'un spahi (1881 )
  • Fleurs d' ennui. Pasquali Ivanovitch (1882 )
  • Mon frère Yves ( 1883)
  • Les trois dames de la Kasbah (1884 )
  • The Iceland Fischer (2008, Translator of Dirk Hemjeoltmanns & Otfried Schulze and 2012, Translator of Carmen Sylva ) Pecheur d' Islande French (1886 )
  • Madame Chrysanthème (1887 )
  • Propos d' exil (1887 )
  • Japoneries d' automne (1889 )
  • In the sign of the Sahara (1991 ) French Au Maroc (1890)
  • Novel a child French Le roman d'un enfant (1890)
  • Le livre de la pitié et de la mort (1891 )
  • Fantôme d' Orient (1892 )
  • L' exilée (1893 )
  • A Sailor (1899, Translator of Emmy cup) French Le matelot (1893 )
  • The Desert (2005, Translator of Dirk Hemjeoltmanns ) French Le Désert (1894 )
  • Jerusalem (2005, Translator of Dirk Hemjeoltmanns ) French Jérusalem (1894 )
  • Galilee (2006, Translator of Dirk Hemjeoltmanns ) French La Galilée (1894 )
  • Ramuntcho (1897 )
  • Judith Renaudin (1898 )
  • Reflets de la sombre route ( 1899)
  • The Last Days of Beijing ( translator's by Friedrich von Opole - Bronikowski ) French Les derniers jours de Pekin (1902 )
  • L' Inde sans les Anglais (1903 )
  • After Isfahan (2000, Translator of Dirk Hemjeoltmanns ) French verse Ispahan (1904 )
  • La troisième jeunesse de Mme Prune (1905 )
  • The Disenchanted (1912 ) French Les désenchantées (1906 )
  • In the Land of the Pharaohs (1922? , Translator of Frederick of Opole - Bronikowski ) French La mort de Philae (1909 )
  • Le château de la Belle au Bois Dormant (1910 )
  • A pilgrimage to Angkor (1926 ) French Un pèlerin d' Angkor (1912 )
  • La Turquie agonisante (1913 )
  • La hyène Enragée (1916 )
  • Quelques aspects du vertige mondial (1917 )
  • L' horreur allemande (1918 )
  • Prime jeunesse (1919)
  • La mort de notre chère France en Orient (1920 )
  • Suprêmes visions d' Orient ( 1921)
  • Un jeune officier pauvre (1923, posthumous)
  • Lettres à Juliette Adam (1924, posthumous)
  • Journal intime (1878-1885), 2 vols ( Intimate journal, 1925-1929 )
  • Correspondance inédite (1865-1904, 1929)
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