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Title: Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti ISBN: 1-4043-1580-2 Publisher: IndyPublish.com Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Of A Certain Time...
Comment: ...I have to recommend this book as being lush, Romantic, and hugely interesting not only as a novel, but also in its historic significance as well. The previous review is right in its observation of the colonialist attitude in the book, it is a novel of a certain time and a certain place, which is often why we read literature anyway no?...Not to mention this is a sailor story, and like so many other sailor stories throughout history, published and unpublished, the main character is in a foreign land, he gets the girl (or the guy), they have a "nice time", dramatic bits here and there, then toot toot the ship sets sail. The colonialist accusations are perhaps why Loti has largely faded from popular view, but should not prevent us from looking further into its significance as a catalyst in the interest of Japanese and Asian culture in the late 19th Century. Most notably, this book was read by Van Gogh during a brief Japanese phase. He was then inspired by Japanese prints and read Madame Chrysantheme by candle light, feeding his fertile imagination and all the while conjuring and creating images of a land so far from his view. That is the beauty of Madame Chrysantheme.
Rating: 2
Summary: Colonialism.
Comment: Loti was a professional seaman. When his ship is moored in Nagasaki, he contacts a matrimonial agent for a 'temporary marriage' with a young Japanese girl, Madame Chrysanthème.
The novel narrates his sexual (?), and in any case loveless, relationship with the girl as if Loti is keeping a diary, very anecdotally.
Loti has not the slightest interest in the Japanese soul. This work has absolutely no psychological content. Loti looks as a real colonialist disdainful and amused upon Japan and the Japanese.
If this novel would have been written today, it would certainly be called racist.
But it gives a good picture of Nagasaki at the end of the 19th century.
To be read as a document about the relationship between the East and the West in the 19th century and about the arrogant mentality in the West at that time.
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Title: As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (Kodansha Globe) by Masao Miyoshi ISBN: 1568360282 Publisher: Kodansha America Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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