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PIERRE LOTI

THE first appearance of Pierre Loti's works,
twenty years ago, caused a sensation throughout
those circles wherein the creations of intellect and
imagination are felt, studied, and discussed. The
author was one who, with a power which no one
had wielded before him, carried off his readers
into exotic lands, and whose art, in appearance
most simple, proved a genuine enchantment for
the imagination. It was the time when M. Zola
and his school stood at the head of the literary
movement. There breathed forth from Loti's
writings an all-penetrating fragrance of poesy,
which liberated French literary ideals from the
heavy and oppressive yoke of the Naturalistic
school. Truth now soared on unhampered pin-
ions, and the reading world was completely won
by the unsurpassed intensity and faithful accu-
racy with which he depicted the alluring charms
of far-off scenes, and painted the naïve soul of
the races that seem to endure in the isles of

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Publication Information: Book Title: Iceland Fisherman. Contributors: Pierre Loti - author. Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1902. Page Number: v.
    
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