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Claude Farrère

クロード・ファレール

Kurōdo Farēru

Aliases: Frédéric-Charles Bargone

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1876-04-27 (Lyon)
Died
1957-06-21 (Paris) age 81
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Residence History
Lyon → Paris

Career

Occupations
French Navy officer, Writer
Active Years
1894-1957
Affiliations
Académie Française
Memberships
Académie Française
Influenced By
Pierre Louÿs, Pierre Loti

Education

French Naval Academy
Naval Department
Period: 1894年入学
Country: France
Admitted in 1894; lieutenant in 1906; captain in 1918; resigned in 1919

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1905
Work: Les Civilisés
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Civilisés

1905 Novel

Novel about life in French colonial Indochina

ColonialismExotic cultures

Fumée d'opium

1904 Novel

Exotic story involving opium

OpiumOrient

La Bataille

1909 Novel

Romance set during the Battle of Tsushima

Naval battleJapanese modernization
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Battle / Sessue Hayakawa (1923)
  • [Film] La Bataille / Nicolas Farkas (1934)

Bibliography

  • Le Cyclone (1902)
  • Fumée d'opium (1904)
  • Les Civilisés (1905)

Adaptations

  • L'homme qui assassina (1913, dir. Henri Andréani)

Translations of Works

  • La Bataille translated to Serbian as Boj (1912)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Exotic settingsNaval adventures
Recurring Motifs
AsiaOrientColonies

Legacy

French Navy officer turned writer, Prix Goncourt winner, Académie Française member. Known for exotic novels, now less popular

In Popular Culture

  • Inspiration for Mitsouko perfume
  • Namesake street in Istanbul

Trivia

  • Supported Turkish National Movement, visited Atatürk
  • Street named after him in Istanbul
  • Supported Vichy Regime