was a little difficult to disentangle what is autobiographical and what is fictionalized in this novel strange combination of letters sent or received by the Navy Lieutenant Loti, and a sort of diary where he tells his unlikely encounter with the beautiful young woman and the passion that will move them to life to death. Incidentally, he describes the city of Istanbul and Change landscape with the seasons, times of day, sun or storm, Oriental life can be perceived as a European - even though he was obviously gone far enough in immersion. Strangely, a little over a century later, he describes the sensations that I also felt in discovering Turkey, which left me very nostalgic at the end of three weeks' visit ...
It is surprising that a military barely thirty years be as sensitive and sensitive, too sentimental and romantic, too lazy and full of metaphysical doubts, especially since it is also as we can imagine a Marine, ie a woman or several in each port and does not deny it. But he lets himself be captivated by Aziyade, so naive and yet different from him, or perhaps because of it: it certainly represents an ideal of female children, loving and devoted wife to her lover to death in despair when a year later, he must leave his country to European ...
The novel touches the contemporary reader by the sincerity of feelings, the simplicity of the story, sometimes mundane and often blurred. For example, he did done nothing to understand the political context of the time, and the war that was played in a manner so strange that during almost a year, remains stationary Loti in Istanbul, which his vessel did not move, and where he rented a "box" that landscape in which he lives, surrounded by a few friends he made on site and especially where his beautiful joins him every night. But the love story is beautiful, and reported a very sensitive, sensitive and felt.
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