Madame Chrysanthème (novel)

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*Madame Chrysanthème*
Title page for Madame Chrysanthème (1888 edition)
Author	Pierre Loti
Set in	Meiji Japan
Publication date	1887

Madame Chrysanthème is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer who was temporarily married to a Japanese woman while he was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan.^[1] It closely follows the journal he kept of one-month paid relationship with Kiku (Chrysanthemum) in the Jūzenji (十善寺) neighbourhood (modern day Jūninmachi (十人町)) in 1885.^[2] Originally written in French and published in 1887, Madame Chrysanthème was very successful in its day, running to 25 editions in the first five years of its publication with translations into several languages including English.^[3] It has been considered a key text in shaping western attitudes toward Japan at the turn of the 20th century.^[4] It is known in Japan under the title of お菊さん (O Kiku-san), which is a direct translation of the French name.

André Messager's 1893 opera of the same name is based on it, as are some aspects of Puccini's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly.^[5]

References

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Notes

^ "The Original Story: John Luther Long and David Belasco". New York City Opera Project: Madama Butterfly. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
^ Miskow, Catherine (2011-12-15). "The Chrysanthemum and the Butterfly: What, if Anything, Remains of Pierre Loti in the Madame Butterfly Narrative". Utah Foreign Language Review. 19. Archived from the original on 2019-01-08. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
^ Van Rij 2001, pp. 34–35
^ Reed 2010, p. 1
^ Van Rij 2001, p. 29

Sources

Reed, Christopher (2010). The Chrysanthème Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème and Other Documents of French Japonisme. University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 978-0-8248-3345-9.
Van Rij, Jan (2001). Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the search for the real Cho-Cho-San. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1-880656-52-3.

External links

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Madame Chrysanthème at Google Books.

Madame Chrysanthème at Project Gutenberg
Audio version of original French
Madame Chrysantheme public domain audiobook at LibriVox

v t e Pierre Loti
Novels	Aziyadé (1879) An Iceland Fisherman (1886) Madame Chrysanthème (1887) Le Mariage de Loti (1880) My Brother Yves (1883) Ramuntcho (1897)
Memoir	Au Maroc (1890)
Miscellaneous	Piyer Loti Museum

v t e Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Commons Audio
Films	Madame Butterfly (1915) Harakiri (1919 film) Le ménage moderne du Madame Butterfly (1920) The Toll of the Sea (1922) Madame Butterfly (1932) Madame Butterfly (1954) M. Butterfly (1993)
Source	"Madame Butterfly" (1898 short story) Madame Butterfly (1900 play) Madame Chrysanthème (1887 novel)
Stage	M. Butterfly (1988 play) Miss Saigon (1989 musical)
Music	"Un bel dì, vedremo" (aria) Madama Butterfly discography
Related	Madame Chrysanthème (1901 opera) El pecado de Oyuki (1975 comic) El pecado de Oyuki (1988 telenovela) Pinkerton (1996 album)

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