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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave : 1800-1815 by François-Réne Chateaubriand; Alex Andriesse; Julien Gracq is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

François-Réne Chateaubriand; Alex Andriesse; Julien Gracq

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681371290

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Fiction