Pierre Loti

Fant me d'Orient Pierre Loti

A young officer met in Salonika a young Circassian belonging to the harem of a rich old man in Istanbul. Her lover, a British naval officer, recalled to England, left her in spite of himself. When he finds her, the young woman died of grief. He also dies in battle. "If all is not finished in the dark dust, I shall soon know it." I will try to die to find out ... "An almost autobiographical novel by Pierre Loti who lives in Turkey and meets Azidaye in 1877. "The living descriptions of the author of the districts of Eyüp and Haskeuy never fall into the rut of easy orientalism, and the narrative unfolds on a remarkable historical and political background: the tumultuous consecration of Sultan Abdülhamid, The Balkan crisis, the Treaty of San Stefano, which leaves Turkey outside of Europe. At the time, the Turkic-loti Loti had succeeded, with this quasi-autobiographical book, to turn Western opinion in favor of the Turks. (Excerpted from a commentary of the Guide du routard)