Chateaubriand: A Biography, Volume One: The Longed-For Tempests
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
François-René de Chateaubriand — soldier, exile, diplomat, and one of the founding fathers of French Romanticism — lived a life so turbulent and grand that it demanded a biographer of equal stature to chronicle it. In this first volume of his monumental work, George D. Painter traces Chateaubriand's formative years, from a brooding, storm-haunted childhood in the windswept towers of Combourg to the revolutionary fires that consumed the old aristocratic world he was born into, illuminating how a restless young Breton nobleman forged himself into one of the nineteenth century's most towering literary and political figures. Painter presents the young Chateaubriand's wanderings — his flight to America, his return to a France in revolutionary convulsion, and his harrowing years of emigration in England — as the crucible in which the visionary author of Atala and René was born. Painter, celebrated for his landmark two-volume biography of Marcel Proust, brings the same extraordinary scholarship and novelistic precision to this work, situating Chateaubriand's inner turbulence against the vast canvas of a Europe in upheaval. The biography is as much a portrait of an age — of revolution, exile, and the birth of Romantic sensibility — as it is an intimate study of one man's singular genius. Rich with archival research and suffused with Painter's own elegant prose style, Chateaubriand: A Biography stands as a landmark of literary life-writing that leaves the reader hungry to follow its subject into the storms still to come.
Author: George D. Painter
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
François-René de Chateaubriand — soldier, exile, diplomat, and one of the founding fathers of French Romanticism — lived a life so turbulent and grand that it demanded a biographer of equal stature to chronicle it. In this first volume of his monumental work, George D. Painter traces Chateaubriand's formative years, from a brooding, storm-haunted childhood in the windswept towers of Combourg to the revolutionary fires that consumed the old aristocratic world he was born into, illuminating how a restless young Breton nobleman forged himself into one of the nineteenth century's most towering literary and political figures. Painter presents the young Chateaubriand's wanderings — his flight to America, his return to a France in revolutionary convulsion, and his harrowing years of emigration in England — as the crucible in which the visionary author of Atala and René was born. Painter, celebrated for his landmark two-volume biography of Marcel Proust, brings the same extraordinary scholarship and novelistic precision to this work, situating Chateaubriand's inner turbulence against the vast canvas of a Europe in upheaval. The biography is as much a portrait of an age — of revolution, exile, and the birth of Romantic sensibility — as it is an intimate study of one man's singular genius. Rich with archival research and suffused with Painter's own elegant prose style, Chateaubriand: A Biography stands as a landmark of literary life-writing that leaves the reader hungry to follow its subject into the storms still to come.