The Chrysantheme Papers The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysantheme and Other Documents of French Japonisme 1st Edition by Christopher Reed ISBN 0824833457 9780824833459

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ISBN 10: 0824833457

ISBN 13: 9780824833459 

Author: Christopher Reed 

Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author’s lifetime, served as a source of Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti’s story, cast in the form of his fictionalized diary, describes the affair between a French naval officer and Chrysanthème, a temporary “bride” purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti’s novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, to use one of Loti’s favorite words, “preposterous”—in short, ripe for exploitation.

The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème (1893) sought, according to a newspaper reviewer at the time, “to avenge Japan for the adjectives that Pierre Loti has inflicted on it.” Written by Félix Régamey, a talented illustrator with firsthand knowledge of Japan, The Pink Notebook retells Loti’s story but this time as the diary of Chrysanthème. The book, presented here in English for the first time and together with the original French text and illustrations by Régamey and others, is certainly surprising in its late nineteenth-century context. Its retelling of a classic tale from the position of a character marginalized by her sex and race provocatively anticipates certain aspects of postmodern literature. Translator Christopher Reed’s rich and satisfying introduction compares Loti and Régamey in relation to attitudes toward Japan held by notable Japonistes Vincent van Gogh, Lafcadio Hearn, Edmond de Goncourt, and Philippe Burty. Reed provides further intellectual context by including new translations of excerpts from Loti’s novel as well as a portion of the travel journal of Régamey’s travel companion, the renowned collector Emile Guimet. Reed’s emphasis on competing Western ideas about Japan challenges conventional scholarly generalizations concerning Japanism in this era.

This elegant translation of The Pink Notebook and Japoniste documents will delight both general and specialized readers, particularly those interested in the ambiguities in the dynamics of nationalism, gender, identification, and exploitation that, since the nineteenth century, have characterized the West’s relationship to Japan.

Table of contents:

Part I: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanth

• The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanth

• Notes on the Translation

• Preface: The Japanese Soul and the Japan of Monsieur Pierre Loti

• Dedication

• The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanth

• Le Cahier Rose de Mme Chrysanth

• Preface: L’Ame japonaise et le Japon

• Le Cahier Rose de Madame Chrysanth

Part II: Selections from “Madame Chrysanth” by Pierre Loti and “Walks through Japan” by Emile Guimet

• Introductory Note

• Madame Chrysanth

• Madame Chrysanth

• Walks through Japan

• “Promenades Japonaises”

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