Atala and Rene

Name: Atala and Rene
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ISBN: 9780520002234

ISBN-10: 0520002237

ISBN-13: 9780520002234

Edition: 1952

Authors: Franï¿½ois-Renï¿½ de Chateaubriand, Irving Putter

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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 René are his two best-known works, reflecting not only his own joys, aspirations, and despair, but the emerging tastes of a new literary era. Atala is the passionate and tragic love story of a young Indian couple wandering in the…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 1952
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/1/1952
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English