Atala / Rene by François-René de Chateaubriand

Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English romanticists, on explorers in America, and on Goethe's Werther, he had a profound effect on French writers from Victor Hugo and Lamartine to George Sand and Flaubert. A quixotic and paradoxical personality, he combined impressive careers as a brilliant prose-poet, a spiritual guide, a high-ranking diplomat, and an enterprising lover. Atala and Rene are his two best-known works, reflecting not only his own joys, aspirations, and despair, but the emerging tastes of a new literary era. This 1980 University of California Press Paperback is in fair condition. Annotated.

ISBN: 9780520002234 SKU: 1578272 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1578272
Location: Classics