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| Publisher | NYRB Classics |
| ISBN 13 | 9781681371290 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681371294 |
| Book Description | 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 Paris, meeting with George Washington in Philadelphia, and falling hopelessly in love with a young woman named Charlotte in the small Suffolk town of Bungay. The volume ends with Chateaubriand's return to France after seven years of exile in England. In this new edition (the first unabridged English translation of any portion of the Memoirs to be published in more than a century), Chateaubriand emerges as a writer of great wit and clarity, a self deprecating egotist whose meditations on the meaning of history, memory, and morality are leavened with a mixture of high whimsy and memorable gloom. |
| Editorial Review | What distinguishes [Memoirs from Beyond the Grave]...is less its historical overview of the turbulence that preceded Napoleon's rise to power than Chateaubriand's examination of his own character and feelings amid multiple setbacks. Indeed, it is the lyricism and intimacy of his language, convincingly translated here by Alex Andriesse, that made Chateaubriand a precursor of French Romanticism. ----Alan Riding, The New York Times Book Review |
| About the Author | 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. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Francois-Rene Chateaubriand, Anka Muhlstein, Alex Andriesse |
| Publication Date | 20-Feb-18 |
| Number of Pages | 512 |
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave 1768-1800 Paperback English by Francois-Rene Chateaubriand - 20-Feb-18
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