Madame Chrysantheme - 9781546616894

Full text. Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanth?me (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti's story, cast in the form of his fictionalized diary, describes the affair between a French naval officer and Chrysanth?me, a temporary "bride" purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti's novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, to use one of Loti's favorite words, "preposterous"-in short, ripe for exploitation.

• | Author: Pierre Loti, Laura Ensor
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1546616896
• | ISBN-13: 9781546616894