Chateaubriand
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few lives in the history of French letters have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that of François-René de Chateaubriand, the Romantic visionary whose pen helped forge a nation's literary soul. André Maurois, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated biographers, chronicles the extraordinary arc of this writer-statesman's life: from his wild Breton childhood and the upheavals of the French Revolution, through his passionate loves and political intrigues, to his towering legacy as the father of French Romanticism. Maurois brings his signature gifts — psychological acuity, elegant prose, and a novelist's instinct for drama — to bear on a subject of inexhaustible richness, illuminating the profound contradictions of a man who was simultaneously devout and libertine, conservative and revolutionary, solitary and desperate for glory. Translated into English by Vera Fraser, this biography stands as both a monument to its subject and a masterwork of the biographical form, raising the tantalising question of whether any life can ever truly be captured on the page.
Author: André Maurois
Format: Hardback
Published: 1938, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few lives in the history of French letters have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that of François-René de Chateaubriand, the Romantic visionary whose pen helped forge a nation's literary soul. André Maurois, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated biographers, chronicles the extraordinary arc of this writer-statesman's life: from his wild Breton childhood and the upheavals of the French Revolution, through his passionate loves and political intrigues, to his towering legacy as the father of French Romanticism. Maurois brings his signature gifts — psychological acuity, elegant prose, and a novelist's instinct for drama — to bear on a subject of inexhaustible richness, illuminating the profound contradictions of a man who was simultaneously devout and libertine, conservative and revolutionary, solitary and desperate for glory. Translated into English by Vera Fraser, this biography stands as both a monument to its subject and a masterwork of the biographical form, raising the tantalising question of whether any life can ever truly be captured on the page.