Author: Pierre Loti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
A Tale of Brittany-Mon Frère Yves ... Translated ... by W.P. Baines
A Tale of Brittany (Mon frère Yves)
Author: Pierre Loti
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Mon Frère Yves is a semi-autobiographical novel written by the French author Pierre Loti. It describes the friendship between French naval officer Pierre Loti and a hard-drinking Breton sailor Yves Kermadec during the 1870s and 80s. It was probably Loti's best-known book. The fictional Yves was, in reality, Loti's friend, the Breton sailor Pierre le Cor, whom he had sailed with on a number of voyages. A functional illiterate, le Cor was, however, tall, fair, and handsome; everything Loti wanted to be. Like Yves, le Cor was a heavy drinker, while Loti hardly drank at all. The two often spent time ashore either gambling, brawling, scheming childish pranks, or roaming the countryside of Brittany where le Cor introduced Loti to the lore of the Breton culture. In Brittany, Loti met le Cor's mother, and swore to watch over her son forever, although le Cor's hard-drinking often tested the bonds of their friendship.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Mon Frère Yves is a semi-autobiographical novel written by the French author Pierre Loti. It describes the friendship between French naval officer Pierre Loti and a hard-drinking Breton sailor Yves Kermadec during the 1870s and 80s. It was probably Loti's best-known book. The fictional Yves was, in reality, Loti's friend, the Breton sailor Pierre le Cor, whom he had sailed with on a number of voyages. A functional illiterate, le Cor was, however, tall, fair, and handsome; everything Loti wanted to be. Like Yves, le Cor was a heavy drinker, while Loti hardly drank at all. The two often spent time ashore either gambling, brawling, scheming childish pranks, or roaming the countryside of Brittany where le Cor introduced Loti to the lore of the Breton culture. In Brittany, Loti met le Cor's mother, and swore to watch over her son forever, although le Cor's hard-drinking often tested the bonds of their friendship.
A Tale of Brittany (Mon Frere Yves)
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars
Author: Maurice Dekobra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orient Express (Express train)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orient Express (Express train)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Tale of Brittany
Pierre Loti
Author: Edmund Basil D'Auvergne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, French
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, French
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Morocco
Le voyageur en France
Sex, Sailors and Colonies
Author: Hélène de Burgh
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039106011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book focuses on the oeuvre of nineteenth-century author and naval captain Julien Viaud (1850-1923) who wrote under the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Considered a best-seller in his day and a distinguished naval figure, Loti's contribution to French naval and literary history is significant. This work suggests a new reading of Loti's literature that positions his texts within the critical theoretical paradigms of Postcolonialism and Queer Theory. This study examines both Loti's fictional and non-fictional opus. It explores the dominant themes relayed throughout his oeuvre including his portrayal of exotic sexuality as being underpinned by a desire to elude articulation, his uncertain approach to colonialism given the constant shift between his identity as a colonising sailor and sympathising exoticist and Loti's own self-representation in both his fictional and non-fictional works. His constant re-invention of Pierre Loti as a persona in his writing creates a question about who Loti really is and how much of the man is represented in the so-called autobiographical text. These seemingly disparate themes of sexuality, colonialism and personal identity are all interrogated as posssible sites of ambiguity, thus revealing the general scope and complexity of Loti's work.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039106011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book focuses on the oeuvre of nineteenth-century author and naval captain Julien Viaud (1850-1923) who wrote under the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Considered a best-seller in his day and a distinguished naval figure, Loti's contribution to French naval and literary history is significant. This work suggests a new reading of Loti's literature that positions his texts within the critical theoretical paradigms of Postcolonialism and Queer Theory. This study examines both Loti's fictional and non-fictional opus. It explores the dominant themes relayed throughout his oeuvre including his portrayal of exotic sexuality as being underpinned by a desire to elude articulation, his uncertain approach to colonialism given the constant shift between his identity as a colonising sailor and sympathising exoticist and Loti's own self-representation in both his fictional and non-fictional works. His constant re-invention of Pierre Loti as a persona in his writing creates a question about who Loti really is and how much of the man is represented in the so-called autobiographical text. These seemingly disparate themes of sexuality, colonialism and personal identity are all interrogated as posssible sites of ambiguity, thus revealing the general scope and complexity of Loti's work.
The Nightside of Japan
Author: Taizo Fujimoto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description