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He was born Jan. 14, 1850, at Rochefort, France of an austere Protestant family. Religion and a feeling for the sea dominated his childhood and youth.
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"Every now and then turbaned figures would go by, following the wall; and not a single female head was to be seen behind the discreet grills of the women's appartments, the 'haremlikes'. A dead city, one might have said. I thought I was perfectly alone; then I experienced a strange feeling, and realised that close to me, from behind thick iron bars at head height, two large green eyes were staring into mine. The eyebrows were brown, and the slight frown brought them so close that they met; the gaze suggested a combination of vigour and openness; it contained so much freshness and youth it could have been taken for a child's. The young woman, whose eyes these were, rose, and from her waist upward one could tell she was wrapped in the long, stiff folds of a Turkish-style cape, a 'feredge', made of green silk, embroidered with silver. A white veil carefully enveloped her head, revealing only her forehead and her large eyes. The pupils were indeed green: that shade of sea green, which was celebrated in the past by the poets of the Orient. The young woman was Aziyade." **************************************************************************** Other books available in North Star Ed. (Lettres Classiques, SF Anticipation, Fantastic) click on the link : "North Star Ed" under book title. See also our site : http://north-stared.wix.com/editions ****************************************************************************
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Texte original. "Ils étaient cinq, aux carrures terribles, accoudés à boire, dans une sorte de logis sombre qui sentait la saumure et la mer. Le gîte, trop bas pour leurs tailles, seffilait par un bout, comme lintérieur dune grande mouette vidée ; il oscillait faiblement, en rendant une plainte monotone, avec une lenteur de sommeil. Dehors, ce devait être la mer et la nuit, mais on nen savait trop rien : une seule ouverture coupée dans le plafond était fermée par un couvercle en bois, et cétait une vieille lampe suspendue qui les éclairait en vacillant. Il y avait du feu dans un fourneau ; leurs vêtements mouillés séchaient, en répandant de la vapeur qui se mêlait aux fumées de leurs pipes de terre. Leur table massive occupait toute leur demeure ; elle en prenait très exactement la forme, et il restait juste de quoi se couler autour pour sasseoir sur des caissons étroits scellés au murailles de chêne. De grosses poutres passaient au-dessus deux, presque à toucher leurs têtes ; et, derrière leurs dos, des couchettes qui semblaient creusées dans lépaisseur de la charpente souvraient comme les niches dun caveau pour mettre les morts. Toutes ces boiseries étaient grossières et frustes, imprégnées dhumidité et de sel ; usées, polies par les frottements de leurs mains."
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"An Iceland Fisherman" is a novel by French author Pierre Loti that depicts the romantic but inevitably sad life of Breton fishermen who sail each summer season to the stormy Iceland cod grounds. Literary critic Edmund Gosse characterized "An Iceland Fisherman" as "the most popular and finest" of all Loti's writings." Loti's style is a combination of the French realist school, such as Emile Zola, and a form of literary impressionism. Loti used a simple but fragrantly poetic vocabulary. Somehow, words (as used by him) take on a new value, awakening sensations lying deep within the reader. Loti's characters in "An Iceland Fisherman" are humble and simple working class people, and the incidents are normal every day affairs, dealing with the themes of love and separation. One of Loti's greatest strengths is his depictions of nature, and how he places it on center stage. In "An Iceland Fisherman," Loti adapts some of the Impressionist techniques of contemporary painters, especially Monet, to prose. First published in 1886 as Pêcheur d'Islande, "An Iceland Fisherman" is considered to be a classic of French literature today.
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He was born Jan. 14, 1850, at Rochefort, France of an austere Protestant family. Religion and a feeling for the sea dominated his childhood and youth.
Irresistibly attracted by the sea, he prepared at the Ecole Navale, at Brest.
In 1867 he entered the navy, in which he had an honorable career, attaining the rank of captain. He served in the Franco-Prussian War and in World War I. He retired in 1918.
For Loti the writing of novels was an escape from loneliness. He was deeply fascinated by nature and especially by the sea, colorful evocations of which abound in his novels. His greatest novel, Pecheur d'Islande (1886) (An Iceland Fisherman), portrays the people of Brittany in their struggle with the sea. He wrote some forty novels in all, most of which dealt with the Oriental and the exotic: touching Africa in Au Maroc (1890) (Morocco), Tahiti in Rarahu (1880), Palestine in Jerusalem (1895) (Jerusalem) and La Galilee (1895), Turkey in L'Exilee (1893) (From Lands of Exile) and Les Desenchantees (1906) (Disenchanted), India and Indochina in L'Inde sans les Anglais(1903) (India) and Un PèlerinPelerin d'Angkor (1912), Japan in Madame Chrysantheme (1887) and Japoneries d'automne (1889), Persia in Vers Ispahan (1904). The subject of his great novel, Ramuntcho (1897) (A Tale of the Pyrenees), is the Basque country.
In 1912 Loti mounted a production of The Daughter of Heaven, written several years earlier in collaboration with Judith Gautier for Sarah Bernhardt, at the Century Theatre in New York City.
He is known for his novel, Pecheur d'Islande (1886). Loti's literary glory is based upon the magic of his descriptions and his intense appeal to man's eternal interest in the exotic. His art is somewhat marred, however, by his strong egotism, his lack of variety in style, and the insubstantiality of his plots.
He was accepted as an Istanbul City Honorary Citizen in 1920. In 1887 Loti was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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An enemy of modern progress, Loti was instinctively attracted by the backward Orientals, especially by the Tahitians, the Turks, and the Egyptians. Loti was deeply affected by Ottoman life style and this was reflected in his novels. He always qualified himself as a friend of Turks.
In 1892 he was received into the Academie Francaise.
