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1ª edición en inglés.
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Busken Huet (1875, 1883; blz. 1-53 beschrijft op prachtige wijze de inhoud van deze boeken en vergelijkt deze met o.a. Werther. Een genot om te lezen in het Nederlands maar ik wil het ook nog in het Frans lezen.

Memorias de ultratumba es una autobiografía de François-René de Chateaubriand en 42 volúmenes que se publica en 1848.

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Atala by Chateaubriand was published in 1801 and René in 1802. Both novellas well received at the time due to the “exotic” locations (the US and native individuals) and the virtues of Christianity. The summary indicates they “helped shape European romantic archetypes which would resonate throughout the 19th century and profoundly mark literature and art.”

The writing (translation by Rayner Heppenstall) was good, but I couldn’t connect to the characters.

The objectifying of Native Americans and liberal use of the word “savages” (hard to buy the “wise” Chactas thinking of himself as “Savage”) is off putting, so it has to be read as a book of its time.

BP-6

I was expecting to find this book interesting as a historical source, but was surprised to love it as literature. Even in translation two centuries later, Chateaubriand has a felicity with language that oozes through the page — belying his early disclaimer that he is not one for wit. These memoirs are full of well-turned phrases and surprisingly self-aware observations from Chateaubriand's full life, which included a childhood growing up in a castle with a distant father, an irresolute young adulthood that included a sojourn exploring America (a sort of 18th Century "gap year"), fame as a best-selling author and a denouement as a statesman and diplomat. Even the less exciting bits, such as Chateaubriand's childhood, are highly readable, while his character study of Napoleon is incisive (if not wholly reliable).

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.

Fascinating stuff; it's easy to see the influence Chateaubriand has had on later French writing; it's also just damn enjoyable to spend time in his company. I read this too quickly, but I'm very excited to re-read with pencil in hand, because the bon mots come thick and fast. His description of listening to shovelsful of dirt being dropped on a coffin might be the most affecting thing I've read this year. It would be wonderful to have the rest of the Memoirs translated in a modern edition, but I suspect that's not really a good business proposition.

Poetic prose

JG-3

DOS VOLÚMENES

I picked this up because I read about how well-written it is. And wow, is that true. You could create a pretty good book of quotes from this volume alone--and this is only about 1/4 of Chateaubriand's whole memoirs, which I hope will follow this one. I am not a student of French history, but after reading this book, the French Revolution, which Chateaubriand strongly opposed, comes across as one of the most depraved periods in history. Indeed, as Chateaubriand loses friends and family to the guillotine, it is a wonder he can continue to chronicle his life story, although he is doing it at some remove, years afterwards when his own fortune had reversed to the point that he was no longer in exile, but serving as French ambassador to Great Britain.

This book is notable for Chateaubriand's excursion to America, where he claims to have met George Washington and to have traveled through much of the Eastern part of North America and met lots of traders and Indian tribes. It is all a bit hard to believe (and later readers tend to agree), but it is beautifully written, and North America does serve as the setting for some of Chateaubriand's later novels, so maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt.

The tone throughout is of a man ready to die and content to do so. He takes solace in his religious belief, although he never goes into much depth about it. I think in his case it is necessary to believe that there must be something bigger, something greater, something somehow more human than the pitiless world he portrays in these memoirs.

This is a must read.

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.

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Chateaubriand-Memoires-doutre-tombe/54982

ATALA-RENÉ-LAS AVENTURAS DEL ÚLTIMO ABENCERRAJE ( Chateaubriand ); SERVIDUMBRE Y GRANDEZA MILITARE ( Vigny).

Le prologue évoque la Louisiane française, le fleuve Mississippi. "Atala" est l'histoire d'un indien Natchez qui va raconter son amour tragique pour une indienne chrétienne de Floride. "René", le jeune homme de bonne famille échoué parmi les indiens, contera lui sa vie en France et ce qui l'a amené à se réfugier dans une contrée si lointaine, en Louisiane.

Este panfleto escrito para preparar el retorno de los Borbones al trono de Francia y dotarla de una monarquía constitucional. Chateaubriand quiere esbozar un retrato particular, pero termina describiendo en detalle a los dictadores que hemos visto en el siglo XX.½

Une autobiographie en 42 livres publiés en 1848 qui ne devait être publiée 50 ans après sa mort, d'où le titre d'outre-tombe. Des raisons financières en décidèrent autrement et les premiers livres furent publiés du vivant de l'auteur.

Édition électronique
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_d%E2%80%99outre-tombe

Une autobiographie en 42 livres publiés en 1848 qui ne devait être publiée 50 ans après sa mort, d'où le titre d'outre-tombe. Des raisons financières en décidèrent autrement et les premiers livres furent publiés du vivant de l'auteur.

Édition électronique
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_d%E2%80%99outre-tombe

A powdered wig apologist for Napoleon ([207]; "the giant enchained at St. Helena") whose embassies he served. The translator offers a very brief sketch of his 80-year life. These Memoirs were his greatest contribution. They are almost "otherworldly".

I should be more impressed by the unity of voice, considering it was composed over such a long and colorful epoch in so many dire places. Traversing Europe and America, he took part in feudal sports, hunted with Louis XVI, camped with Iroquois, lunched with Washington, was an eyewitness to the fall of the Bastille and the loss of most of his peers' heads, fainted from hunger, survived the Terror and Napoleon, entertained lavishly as an ambassador, fought to restore the monarchy, and started the Spanish War of 1823.

He was an eyewitness to the wholesale destruction of French "Nobility" and Clergy by revolutionaries and idiots [they burned religious books and attacked Churches]. And then he saw the restoration of the Church by utterly hypocritical power-mongers and thieves.

A model of courtesy, and very likely gay ([xi; 211 platonic love for Mm Beaumont; "I never looked at a woman without blushing" (!)). Entirely ignorant of the arguments of Voltaire and rectitude of the oppressed. However, he observed timidly, but widely, and seems to record actual events and accurate sequences with his independent views. He did seek, fecklessly, to defend Liberty. [300] I always end up loving the sweet-heart. His inerrant kindness always comes through.

Essencial pra quem gosta de literatura francesa, ou de literatura em geral, no mínimo pela influência absurda que Chateaubriand teve na literatura posterior. Lindamente escrito. “Por outro lado uma alma como a tua, Amélia, tempestuosa como o oceano, um naufrágio mais cruel que o do marinheiro”.

Loin d'être la chronique d'une mort annoncée, ce texte, tiré des Mémoires d'Outre Tombe, éclaire avec une exemplaire lucidité, le parcours hors du commun d'un homme que Chateaubriand montre conquérant plus que politique, soucieux des territoires bien plus que des peuples. L'analyse est tout autant psychologique que factuelle, la critique est vigoureuse mais l'admiration n'est pas en reste. De fait, des liens complexes unissaient l'écrivain engagé et ce conquérant dont il dit qu'il fut „ le Destin pendant seize ans