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Madame Chrysantheme

Madame Chrysantheme

Ensor, Laura
Loti, Pierre

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Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1546616896
ISBN13: 9781546616894
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 10 2017
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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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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