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Angkor

by Pierre Loti
language: french
Publisher: GRAND CARACTERE, May of 2006 ‧
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Puissamment évocateur, ce récit du voyage de Pierre Loti (1850-1923) à Angkor, en 1901, nous plonge dans les splendeurs de la cité mythique des rois khmers. Mais il peut se lire aussi comme la parabole intime de sa propre vie de marin, de grand voyageur et d'écrivain. Loti y évoque tout à la fois l'élan initial, au coeur de l'enfance, vers les lointains exotiques ; l'expédition elle-même, vécue comme un pèlerinage et notée au fil des jours ; la relecture méditative de ces notes, enfin, dix ans plus tard. Malgré la poignante mélancolie de ne plus être " l'enfant pour qui le monde va s'ouvrir " mais celui " qui a vécu ", Loti se souvient, en dépit de tout, des merveilles du monde...

Angkor

by Pierre Loti

Property Description
ISBN: 9782744406614
Publisher: GRAND CARACTERE
Release Date: May of 2006
Language: French
Pages: 125
Format: Book
Collection: Livres En Grand Caractere
Categories: Books in French > Fiction > Travel Literature
EAN: 9782744406614

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti, pseudonym of the writer and naval officer Louis-Marie-Julien Viaud, was born in Rochefort, France, on January 14, 1850. His naval career allowed him to travel the world, an experience that would strongly mark his autobiographical novels and impregnated with a nostalgic exoticism. Although exempted from face-to-face meetings due to his military duties, the author was elected a member of the French Academy on May 21, 1891, a fact that explains the respect that his fellow writers owe him or even the decisive influence he played, in an exemplary way, on the work of Marcel Proust. Writing at an incessant pace, between one and two books a year, Loti tells us about places as diverse as China, Japan, Senegal, Morocco or Easter Island. His works The Fisherman of Iceland (1886), The Book of Piety and Death (1891) and The Disenchanted (1906) stand out. He died on June 10, 1923, in Hendaye.

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