Nineteenth-Century French Studies, March 22nd, 2007
Loti, Pierre. Journal 1868-1878. Alain Quella-Villeger and Bruno Vercier, eds. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2006. Pp. 649. ISBN 2-84654-143-4.
Pierre Loti (1850-1923) was a well-known author by 1880, when his second novel, Le Mariage de Loti, scored a major commercial success. Over the next twenty-six years he produced ten more novels, almost all of them best-sellers and some of them, like Pecheur d'Islande, real masterpieces. As a result the French Academy in 1891 elected him to their august company, Henry James in 1893 hailed him as a "remarkable genius," and Willa Cather confessed that she...
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