Volume 30, Number 18 · November 24, 1983
Escape Artist
By Gabriele Annan
Pierre Loti: The Legendary Romantic
by Lesley Blanch
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 336 pp., $15.95
When Lesley Blanch ran into André Malraux in the Bibliothèque Nationale and told him she was working on a biography of Pierre Loti he exclaimed: 'Quel numéro!...Of course you must do it. The English know nothing about him—and it's high time he was re-read here.'
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