Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
$60.93
- Paperback
800 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2022
Summary
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, <…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681376172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681376172 |
| Author: | Alex Andriesse, François-René Chateaubriand |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 796g |
| Dimensions: | 55mm x 367mm x 136mm |
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“The best autobiography ever written … . The old viscount could write one hell of a sentence. It’s an incredible book.” –Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
“As fresh as ever… . [Memoirs from Beyond the Grave 1768-1800 and Memoirs from Beyond the Grave 1800-1815] speak as much to our times as they did to the nineteenth century.” —David Platzer, The New Criterion“Chateaubriand’s self-appointed calling was as court historian who held his subject in contempt, ensuring that the truth would out about the monsters who rule the world for a spell. His eloquence won the regard even of his sworn enemy… . May he find comparable honor in our time and our place.” —Algis Valiunas, National Review“The best autobiography ever written … . The old viscount could write one hell of a sentence. It’s an incredible book.” —Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
About The Author
Alex Andriesse
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) was born in Saint-Malo, on the northern coast of Brittany, the youngest son of an aristocratic family. Long recognized as one of the first French Romantics, Chateaubriand was also a historian, diplomat, and staunch defender of the freedom of the press. He is best remembered for his posthumously published Memoirs from Beyond the Grave.
Alex Andriesse’s essays and poems have appeared in Granta, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Literary Imagination. His translations include Roberto Bazlen’s Notes Without a Text and Other Writings and François-René de Chateaubriand’s Memoirs from Beyond the Grave- 1768-1800. He lives in the Netherlands.
Julien Gracq (1910-2007), born Louis Poirier, was a French writer of novels, plays, poetry, and literary criticism. His novel Balcony in the Forest is available.
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