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...became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings. "As a newspaperman he could publish translations from Gautier and Loti that were daring for the time, besides original sketches that the magazines would have rejected as being godless or indecent (or simply overwritten...
...uncle's rubber plantation and enjoyed a love affair with a high-spirited Malay girl named Amai. Always a great one for going on pilgrimages, pondering on every historic birthplace and battlefield within reach of his far travels, Lockhart was on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Pierre Loti when he decided to find out what had happened to Amai, as well as take a rest from journalism...
...Pecheur D'Islande" is a conscientious rendition of Pierre Loti's moving tragedy, but somewhat of a disappointment for those whose expectations were proportioned to the magnitude of the classic original. In part, at least, the inferiority is the result of a foolish shift of emphasis, naturally invited by the new medium, from the great, basic ideas of the drama to the incidental episodes...
...Professor of English Literature in Tokyo's Imperial University. At that time Western popular knowledge of Japan was still very Gilbert & Sullivan. Lafcadio Hearn took the real Japan to the English-speaking world just as a neurotic French naval officer named Louis Marie Julien Viaud (Pierre Loti) was taking it to France...
...LOTI (Pierre) The Daughter of Heaven. First...