{"product_id":"2026100011016-secondhand-memoires-doutre-tombe","title":"Mémoires D'Outre-Tombe","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 2nd ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew works in the Western literary canon carry the weight of a life lived at the very heart of history, and François-René de Chateaubriand's Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe — Memoirs from Beyond the Grave — is exactly that: a monumental autobiography that chronicles the author's extraordinary journey from a melancholic Breton childhood through the turmoil of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, and the Restoration. Penned with the explicit intention of being published posthumously, the work presents a singular, sweeping portrait of an era, as seen through the eyes of a man who was diplomat, exile, lover, and literary titan all at once. This edition, prepared by Marc Bouloiseau of the Académie Goncourt for the Classiques pour Notre Temps series, offers a carefully curated selection of texts with a scholarly introduction and notes, making this vast masterwork accessible to a modern readership.\n\nChateaubriand's prose is renowned for its romantic grandeur and lyrical intensity, qualities that transformed French literature and laid the very groundwork for the Romantic movement. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe stands as his supreme achievement — a work of magnificent egotism and profound political insight, in which personal history and universal history become inseparable. The author argues, implicitly but powerfully, that the fate of a civilization can be read in the fate of a single exceptional soul. For any reader drawn to the grand sweep of French history, the birth of literary Romanticism, or simply the power of one extraordinary voice speaking from across the centuries, this volume is an essential and deeply rewarding encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572678529243,"sku":"2026100011016-SECONDHAND","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/08c5def3-2bd5-4d1c-aa06-816be67dc6fa.png?v=1791167264","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011016-secondhand-memoires-doutre-tombe","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}