The Chrysantheme Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysantheme and Other Documents of French Japonisme

by Christopher Reed and Félix Régamey

Book Overview

Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanth?me (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 Chrysanth?me, a temporary "bride" purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti's novel helped define the terms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834372
• ISBN13: 9780824834371
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"