The memoirs of Chateaubriand
| Title | The memoirs of Chateaubriand |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe |
| Author | sel., transl. & w.an introd. by Robert Baldick |
| Publication | Hamish Hamilton |
| Size | XXII, 394p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
Memoirs Biography--Literature--France Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Historians Biography--Nobility de Chateaubriand, François-René (1768-1848) |
| Notes | French writer, politician, diplomat and historian. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition; in an age when a number of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the Génie du christianisme in defense of the Catholic faith. His autobiography Mémoires d'outre-tombe ("Memoirs from Beyond the Grave'", published posthumously in 1849–1850), is nowadays generally considered his most accomplished work. In addition to providing a record of political and historical events, Chateaubriand includes details of his private life and his personal aspirations. The work abounds in instances of the poetic prose at which Chateaubriand excelled. On the other hand, the melancholy of the autobiography helped establish Chateaubriand as the idol of the young French Romantics [wikipedia] |
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