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Pierre Loti
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14 January 1850 - 10 June 1923
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France, 14.01.1850 - 10.06.1923
(pseudonym; real name and surname of Louis Marie Julien Viaud, Viaud) (14.1.1850, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Department of Primorsk Charente, - 10.6.1923, Anday, Department of the Lower Pyrenees), French writer, member of the French Academy (1891). He comes from a Protestant family of sailors. He spent about 40 years in the navy, participated in the Franco-Prussian (1870-71) and 1st World War (1914-18) wars, in colonial expeditions.
Lothy’s literary style was influenced
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France, 14.01.1850 - 10.06.1923
(pseudonym; real name and surname of Louis Marie Julien Viaud, Viaud) (14.1.1850, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Department of Primorsk Charente, - 10.6.1923, Anday, Department of the Lower Pyrenees), French writer, member of the French Academy (1891). He comes from a Protestant family of sailors. He spent about 40 years in the navy, participated in the Franco-Prussian (1870-71) and 1st World War (1914-18) wars, in colonial expeditions.
Lothy’s literary style was influenced by the naturalism of the Goncourt brothers and symbolist prose. Acquaintance with the Eastern countries allowed Loti to create a new literary genre - the so-called colonial novel: "Asiade" (1879), "The Marriage of Loti" (1880), "The Novel of a Spague" (1881), "Lady Chrysanthemum" (1888). An attempt is made to show the superiority of the “white race”, but the rich spiritual life and ancient culture of the peoples of the East are recognized.
Loti talks about his travels in books In Morocco (1889), The Last Days of Beijing (1901), India Without the English (1903) and others. As in novels, here exotic pictures of the nature of the East are in the foreground, social problems are pushed to the background. In the novels My Brother Eve (1883), The Icelandic Fisherman (1886), and The Sailor (1893), Loti described the difficult life of fishermen and sailors.