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Loading... Mémoires d’outre-tombe annotées et illustrées - Texte intégral (French Edition) (original 1841; edition 2014)by François-René de Chateaubriand (Author), Arvensa Editions (Editor)
Work InformationMemoirs from Beyond the Grave by François-René de Chateaubriand (1841)
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The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830. No library descriptions found. |
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My only complaints have to do with the apparent abridgment of this Penguin translation (not advertised at all on the physical copy). There are obvious gaps in the narrative — his pilgrimage to the Holy Land is constantly referenced but never actually described; the treatment of his diplomatic service under the Restoration is frustratingly vague; even his coverage of Napoleon, the meaty center of the book, covers only three major incidents from Bonaparte's reign in depth. I'm sure the original version would seem interminably long today, so some abridgment was surely necessary, but it's best to go in with an understanding of the Penguin edition as a snapshot of a larger work. It's a testament to Chateaubriand's sparkling prose that I wanted more. ( )