Mosaic (Winnipeg), December 1st, 2003
For many contemporary readers, the name Pierre Loti is synonymous with stories of travel and pilgrimage, recounted in fin-de-siecle prose, in which the author describes with a sense of melancholy the adventures he has known, the lands and the loves that he has left behind. Loti has been taken to task by many critics (Barthes, Said, and Lafont, among others) for being a consummate orientalist, whose descriptions of the places he visited are a mixture of cliche and fantasy. In his time, however, Loti was not only wildly popular but also highly respected. In his famous questionnaire, for exampl...
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