{"title":"Books by François-Réne Chateaubriand","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781681371290","title":"Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800","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 \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302301774197,"sku":"9781681371290","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681371290_617e7ce3-68d4-4b64-836f-961dbe51d23d.jpg?v=1786024504"},{"product_id":"9781681376172","title":"Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eAtala\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRené\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Genius of Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800–1815\u003c\/i\u003e—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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303426175349,"sku":"9781681376172","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681376172_d9e6ad3f-5f87-42a4-a28c-aef857058f05.jpg?v=1786024557"},{"product_id":"9781681379616","title":"Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in Europe, now in a new, unabridged English translation—the first in a century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1815—with the Napoleonic era at an end and royalty restored—François-René de Chateaubriand seemed poised, along with the Bourbon family he'd long supported, to wield unprecedented power. Already one of France's most celebrated writers, he now became an ambassador and statesman of the French kingdom. Yet as passionate about royalty as Chateaubriand was in principle, in reality he was a recalcitrant subject. A defender of the constitution and of freedom of the press, he quarreled constantly with Louis XVIII and Charles X and eventually tendered his resignation—just in time for the July Revolution, which put an end to Bourbon rule and allowed Chateaubriand to go back to praising the family, now safely exiled to the realm of the ideal.\u003cbr\u003e    In the third volume of Alex Andriesse's new translation of \u003ci\u003eMemoirs from Beyond the Grave, \u003c\/i\u003eChateaubriand writes about international politics, a papal conclave, and the revolutionary strife of 1830 with undiminished flair. And he remains one of the great masters—perhaps unequaled in this—of literary digression. Readers will gladly accompany him on walks around Paris and Rome, as he reflects on storms and ruins, moonlight and mortality.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369118577013,"sku":"9781681379616","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681379616_5bc392e9-6e31-4353-8f9a-5a852615ad0e.jpg?v=1786024636"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-francois-rene-chateaubriand.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}