François-René de Chateaubriand Knihy

Offers an account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions. This book includes a narrative of the major events of author's life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.

Atala aneb Láska indiánské dvojice v pustinách (1801), příběh o lásce indiánského náčelníka Šakty k dívce z vlastního kmene Atale, bytosti zmítané rozporem mezi city a povinností, kterou na ni vložila umírající matka, je umístěn do nádherné scenérie divoké severoamerické přírody. To, co nám dnes – po působení několika generací romantických – připadá v líčení duševních stavů dvojice mladých milenců zcela přirozené, zaznělo spisovatelovým současníkům až revolučně novým tónem: zarážela je subjektivní osobitost autorského „já“, kterou předchozí klasicisté vůbec neznali. Chateaubriandovo nové vidění a cítění skutečnosti pomohlo literatuře z počátku století vymanit se z dosavadní akademické vyumělkovanosti a umělecké sterility. René (1802) je podobně tragicky laděný příběh citového sblížení dvou mladých lidí, vnitřně rozervaného Francouze Renéa a jeho nebesky krásné a vlídné sestry Amálie. V duševních stavech svého hrdiny vylíčil autor nálady mnoha svých vrstevníků – celé mladé generace trpící „nemocí století“.

The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, Fran�ois-Ren� de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one, and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls.Over the next fifteen years, his life changed utterly. He published Atala, Ren�, and The Genius of Christianity to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He served Napoleon in Rome, then resigned in protest after the Duc d'Enghien's execution, putting his own life at tremendous risk. For these were also the years of Bonaparte's secret police, censorship, and warmongering--all of which Chateaubriand would come to oppose.Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, 1800-1815--the second volume in Alex Andriesse's new and complete translation of this epic French classic--is a chronicle of triumphs and sorrows, narrating not only the author's life during a tumultuous period in European history but the "parallel life" of Napoleon, from his birth on Corsica to his death on Saint Helena. In these pages, Chateaubriand continues to paint his distinctive self-portrait, in which the whole history of France swirls around the sitter like a mist of dreams.

Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Barthes, and Sebald. Here, in the first books of his massive Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and the first rumblings of the French Revolution. He recalls playing games on the beaches of Saint-Malo, wandering in the woods near his father’s castle in Combourg, hunting with King Louis XVI at Versailles, witnessing the first heads carried on pikes through the streets of Paris, meeting with George Washington in Philadelphia, and falling hopelessly in love with a young woman named Charlotte in the small Suffolk town of Bungay. The volume ends with Chateaubriand’s return to France after seven years of exile in England. In this new edition (the first unabridged English translation of any portion of the Memoirs to be published in more than a century), Chateaubriand emerges as a writer of great wit and clarity, a self deprecating egotist whose meditations on the meaning of history, memory, and morality are leavened with a mixture of high whimsy and memorable gloom.

Relive the intimate and tumultuous relationship between one of France's most celebrated writers and his muse, the Marquise de V. François-René de Chateaubriand's correspondence offers a candid and revealing window into his personal life and creative process. From his reflections on love and faith to his political views, readers will be captivated by Chateaubriand's eloquent prose and passionate emotions.

ŻYWOT RANCÉGO to nieznane w Polsce arcydzieło wielkiego francuskiego pisarza. Na jego premierę czekaliśmy niemal dwieście lat. Opowiada o życiowej i duchowej podróży Armanda Jeana de Rancégo. Dziecięcy geniusz, chrześniak kardynała Richelieugo i ulubieniec XVII-wiecznych dworów na końcu swej drogi zostanie opatem trapistów – cysterskiego zakonu o najsurowszej w Kościele Katolickim regule. François-René de Chateaubriand napisał to dzieło na polecenie swojego duchowego przewodnika. Praca nad książką była dla autora moralną, metafizyczną podróżą, w którą dzięki wspaniałemu tłumaczowi możemy dziś wyruszyć także i my. Z FRANCUSKIEGO ORYGINAŁU PO RAZ PIERWSZY NA JĘZYK POLSKI PRZEŁOŻYŁ WIKTOR DŁUSKI