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Les Desenchantes : Roman : Harems turcs Contemporains [The Disenchanted : Novel : Contemporary Turkish Harems]

Loti, Pierre · Paris

Author: Loti, Pierre
Date: 1921
Place: Paris
Publisher: Calmann-Levy
Language: English
Binding: 8vo. (7 1/4" x 4 3/4") 3/4 vellum over marble covers with matching marble pastdowns and endpapers. Top edge gilt. With hand-painted vignette on spine of several harem women, additionally, hand-lettered title, STAMP-SIGNED BY GEORGES LEVITZKY. Original spine and covers bound in.
Format: Provenance: from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery.
Category: Literature & Poetry
Record: S.I.2851

Les Desenchantes : Roman : Harems turcs Contemporains [The Disenchanted : Novel : Contemporary Turkish Harems] Loti, Pierre. 1921. Paris: Calmann-Levy. 8vo. (7 1/4" x 4 3/4") 3/4 vellum over marble covers with matching marble pastdowns and endpapers. Top edge gilt. With hand-painted vignette on spine of several harem women, additionally, hand-lettered title, STAMP-SIGNED BY GEORGES LEVITZKY. Original spine and covers bound in.

Les Désenchantées is Pierre Loti’s novel about the lives of educated Muslim women in late Ottoman Constantinople, focusing on the restrictions of harem life, arranged marriage, social convention, and the desire for greater intellectual and personal freedom. The novel was presented as being based on Loti’s encounters with Turkish women and reflects both contemporary fascination with Ottoman society and the Orientalist perspective of its period.

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