Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815 -1830 - François-réne Chateaubriand

Descriere Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815 -1830 - François-réne Chateaubriand

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. \nAlex 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 and 1800-15, both of which are also available from NYRB Classics. He lives in the Netherlands.\n

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New York Review Of Books

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9781681379616

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