Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
1768-1800
Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand's epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Barthes, and Sebald. Here, in the first books of his massive Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and the first rumblings of the French Revolution. He recalls playing games on the beaches of Saint-Malo, wandering in the woods near his father's castle in Combourg, hunting with King Louis XVI at Versailles, witnessing the first heads carried on pikes through the streets of Pa…
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Weitere Autoren: Andriesse, Alex / Muhlstein, Anka
- ISBN: 978-1-68137-129-0
- EAN: 9781681371290
- Produktnummer: 22331442
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 584 S.
Über den Autor
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), a writer, historian, and diplomat, is considered one of the France's first Romantic authors. Alex Andriesse is a writer and translator. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, and western Massachusetts. Anka Muhlstein was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1996 for her biography of Astolphe de Custine, and has twice received the History Prize of the French Academy.
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