Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
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- Synopsis
- The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls. Over the next fifteen years, his life was utterly changed. He published Atala, René, and The Genius of Christianity to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He served Napoleon in Rome, then resigned in protest after the Duc d&’Enghien&’s execution, putting his own life at tremendous risk.Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800–1815—the second volume in Alex Andriesse&’s new and complete translation of this epic French classic—is a chronicle of triumphs and sorrows, narrating not only the author&’s life during a tumultuous period in European history but the &“parallel life&” of Napoleon. In these pages, Chateaubriand continues to paint his distinctive self-portrait, in which the whole history of France swirls around the sitter like a mist of dreams.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681376189
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781681376172
- Publisher:
- New York Review Books
- Date of Addition:
- 09/27/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Alex Andriesse
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Alex Andriesse