Chateaubriand: A Biography, Volume One: The Longed-For Tempests
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Few lives have burned with such romantic intensity as that of François-René de Chateaubriand — soldier, exile, lover, diplomat, and the founding father of French Romanticism. George D. Painter's magisterial biography chronicles the turbulent early years of this extraordinary man, tracing his origins in the windswept Breton coast, his wilderness exile in America, and the personal and political upheavals of Revolutionary France that forged one of the most brilliant literary careers of the nineteenth century. Painter, celebrated for his landmark two-volume biography of Marcel Proust, brings the same forensic elegance and psychological penetration to Chateaubriand's formative years. His prose is precise yet luminous, reconstructing an era of catastrophe and genius with the authority of a scholar and the craft of a novelist. The result is a portrait of a man perpetually at war with himself and his age — a tension that produced the sublime melancholy of Atala, René, and The Genius of Christianity. For those who wish to understand the soul of Romanticism, the story is only just beginning.
Author: George D. Painter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Chatto & Windus, London
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm.
Few lives have burned with such romantic intensity as that of François-René de Chateaubriand — soldier, exile, lover, diplomat, and the founding father of French Romanticism. George D. Painter's magisterial biography chronicles the turbulent early years of this extraordinary man, tracing his origins in the windswept Breton coast, his wilderness exile in America, and the personal and political upheavals of Revolutionary France that forged one of the most brilliant literary careers of the nineteenth century. Painter, celebrated for his landmark two-volume biography of Marcel Proust, brings the same forensic elegance and psychological penetration to Chateaubriand's formative years. His prose is precise yet luminous, reconstructing an era of catastrophe and genius with the authority of a scholar and the craft of a novelist. The result is a portrait of a man perpetually at war with himself and his age — a tension that produced the sublime melancholy of Atala, René, and The Genius of Christianity. For those who wish to understand the soul of Romanticism, the story is only just beginning.