Loti, Pierre : pen-name of Louis-Marie-Julien Viauc (1850-1923) whose novels were popular due to their accurate & exotic descriptions, & Romantic pessimism.
... and others are likely to be opened at Yanaon and Mahe. Page 459 An Indo-French Committee in Paris An Indo-French Committee (Comité Franco-Hindou) has been founded in Paris and M. Pierre Loti has been invited to become its Honorary President. The Committee proposes to develop intellectual, scientific, artistic and economic relations between France and India. It is a good deal for one... Europe and India, between the West of today and the East of yesterday and tomorrow, is a welcome sign of the times for those who know how much the world's progress depends on their union. M. Pierre Loti, in a letter addressed to the President of the Committee, thus expresses his veneration for India:— "And now I salute thee with awe, with veneration and wonder, ancient India of whom I am the... primordial conceptions." We cannot but subscribe to the sentiment, if not to all the phrases, of this fine piece of literature. But what are these monstrous and terrifying mysteries of which M. Loti speaks? Terror is no longer in the mode, the age of mysteries is over and the age of monstrosities has never been. Ignorance is the only monstrosity. Page 460 Mr. Tilak's Book on the Gita ...
... literature of the ancient peoples was unrefined or insignificant? A Turgeniev, an Amiel, a Leconte de Lisle or a Pierre Loti can take birth only. in the present age. Dante, Homer, Valmiki or the most ancient Vedic sages – none of them, like Turgeniev, Amiel, Leconte de Lisle or Pierre Loti, sought for the tales of various other ages and countries, and yet have these modern poets and litterateurs been... Varuna. Hence in France Malherbe had to appear on the scene after Ronsard. It was Malherbe who was the father of classical French literature, and it is he who paved the way for that prince of classics, Pierre Corneille. The natural march of literature towards the classical style shows also the very raison d'être of literature. The literary genius of a particular nation does not seem to attain its full ...
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