Madame Chrysantheme: Large Print
Madame Chrysantheme: Large Print
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Author(s): Loti, Pierre
ISBN No.: 9781675387566
Pages: 121
Year: 202001
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 13.79
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanthème (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 Chrysanthème, 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.


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