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reason for this than that which I have suggested above: the landscape, in Hugo's and in Gautier's scenes, is a background and nothing more; while Loti makes it the predominating figure of his drama. Our sensibilities are necessarily aroused before this apparition of Nature, blind, inaccessible, and all-powerful as the Fates of old.
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He writes with extreme simplicity, and is not averse to the use of vague and indefinite expressions. And yet the wealth and precision of Gautier's and Hugo's language fail to endow their landscapes with the striking charm and intense life which are to be found in those of Loti. I can find no other
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school." Loti uses a simple vocabulary, "but these words, as used by him, take on a value we did not know they possessed; they awaken sensations that linger deeply within us." The characters are humble and simple working-class people, the incidents are normal every day affairs, dealing with the
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says, Loti wrote at a "..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
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Loti's greatest strength is in the depictions of nature, placing it center stage, as Cambon says:
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in 1929. The novel has been filmed three times, most notably in 1959 by French director
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Jules Cambon, "Introduction", New York P.F. Collier. 1902 (see external links).
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Loti's style is a combination of the French realist school, such as
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characterized it as "the most popular and finest of all writings."
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It's also quoted and referenced as inspiration in the 2015 movie
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fishermen who sail each summer season to the stormy
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Index

Pêcheur d'Islande
French
1886
Pierre Loti
Breton
Iceland
Edmund Gosse
Émile Zola
impressionism
Jules Cambon
poesy
Naturalistic
Louis Tiercelin
Guy Ropartz
Joseph Marx
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Radiant Sea
de


Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Edmund Gosse



Rene Doumie
Contemporary French Novelists
An Iceland Fisherman
Jules Cambon
Internet Archive

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