MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Francois Rene Chateaubriand | 512 pages | 07 Nov 2017 | The New York Review of Books, Inc | 9781681371290 | English | New York, United States [PDF] Memoirs From Beyond The Tomb Full Download-BOOK The Marquis. Laura Auricchio. Sybille Bedford. Selina Hastings. Pages from the Goncourt Journals. Jules de Goncourt and Edmond de Goncourt. My Battle Against Hitler. John Henry Crosby and Dietrich von Hildebrand. Martin Luther. Lyndal Roper. Memoirs of Montparnasse. John Glassco. Living My Life. Emma Goldman. The Girl Who Loved Camellias. Julie Kavanagh. Hons and Rebels. Jessica Mitford. Dressed for a Dance in the Snow. Monika Zgustova. Nina Berberova. Frederick the Great. Nancy Mitford. Down Below. Leonora Carrington. A Life of Her Own. Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist. I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Members Reviews Popularity Average rating Mentions 5 80, 4. 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 Europe No current Talk conversations about this book. I was expecting to find this book interesting as a historical source, but was surprised to love it as literature. You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. Memoirs from Beyond the Grave. References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English None. 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. No library descriptions found. 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 eight years of exile in England. In this new edition the first unabridged 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 egoist whose meditations on the meaning of history, memory, and morality are leavened with a mixture of high whimsy and memorable gloom. Mmoires d'outre-tombe , his Memoirs from Beyond the Grave , is at once sublime literature, brilliant history seen by a fiercely intelligent eye- witness, and a self-portrait of a remarkable and complex man. Chateaubriand is one of that worldly, intellectually -restless literary set, including Goethe and Byron, who may be said to have founded and developed the wider European Romantic movement, granting it social relevance and gaining it an extensive European and North American audience. Kline, "What distinguishes [ Memoirs from Beyond the Grave ] Indeed, it is the lyricism and intimacy of his language, convincingly translated here by Alex Andriesse, that made Chateaubriand a precursor of French Romanticism. Beyond the sumptuous language and aphoristic compression, it is his ability to engage with, and even surmount, contradiction that proves most resonant. His elastic prose It makes for immensely satisfying reading. The echoes of Chateaubriand in so much existentialist literature of the 20th century suggest that for all his difficulty finding congenial company among his contemporaries, in a longer perspective he becomes a figure we can all be intimate with. The old viscount could write one hell of a sentence. It's an incredible book. Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (book review) - PopMatters Testamentary Preface Book I Childhood Book II Boyhood Book V Revolution Book VI To America Book X Exile in England Chateaubriand is one of that worldly, intellectually-restless literary set, including Goethe and Byron, who may be said to have founded and developed the wider European Romantic movement, granting it social relevance and gaining it an extensive European and North American audience. But it is the humane, charming, fallible, private individual who endears himself to the reader in these pages. His many loves and friendships, his admiration for the brilliant women he knew, his warm interpretation of religion, and his conciliatory politics, all add to the vision of a great human being, in the French humanist tradition of Montaigne. Living through the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration, and the subsequent July Monarchy, dying during the Revolution of , he was witness to an endlessly dramatic and fiercely contested period of history. His interpretation of that history is as a man of faith and a staunch proponent of constitutional Monarchy, yet with visible Republican sympathies and, for his time, a remarkable lack of bigotry. His autobiography here is a valuable corrective to a dogmatic view of that history often propounded by pro-Republican or pro-Napoleonic writings. Once encountered Chateaubriand is unforgettable, and the Memoirs deserve much wider literary and historical recognition. They have suffered from an unmerited neglect, due to their extent, and the previous lack of a complete English translation, a lack which is here remedied, the work being further enriched by over six hundred illustrations, and a fully detailed index. Illustrations have been sourced from the public domain collections of various galleries and books considered public domain in the US due to pre publication dates. Digital scans of the latter have been released into the public domain by a variety of institutions through the Flickr Commons portal. So it's clever, pretentious he could be! View all 3 comments. Chateaubriand's style is not that of Racine, it is that of the Prophet. Jan 19, Fazackerly Toast rated it it was amazing Shelves: memoirs , foreign-language , biography. One of those books that you internalise and stays with you. His childhood! His forbidding father pacing the room from the fire to the end plunged in darkness, in silence! Those encounters with Napoleon. That occasion when the Napoleonic army crosses the river into Russia and he hears music, like in Antony and Cleopatra, the god of war whom he loved now leaving him. Second half was really good too, focuses on Napoleon a lot, almost a mini biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. Francois Chateaubriand was a cool guy. I like him. We would have been friends. We have a similar haircut. Mar 25, Marc rated it liked it Shelves: french-literature , romantics. Typical the work of a large 'ego' looking for justification; more than any other this book has strong romantic traits. Chateaubriand is a liberal in his principles freedom is central , but clearly conservative in politics his option for monarchy ; perhaps that explains his isolation as a historical person. The most beautiful pages treat about Napoleon, the passages on his own public actions are less readable. This still is a remarkable historical document! To hunt down View 1 comment. Jun 21, Mia marked it as to-read Shelves: own-but-have-not-read. Whoops, turns out I dont know French. But someday I might. Im keeping this little book around for that day. For an understanding of the romantic temperament that shaped so much midth century European literature, art and music, Chateaubriand's "Memoirs from beyond the Tomb" is a good place to start. The title itself envisions a writer, now nothing more than dust, speaking from beyond the grave--a reminder to us, I suppose, of where we will soon enough be in case we need a reminder! A common enough perspective, I suppose, but the living author who has become a dead author, in this case For an understanding of the romantic temperament that shaped so much midth century European literature, art and music, Chateaubriand's "Memoirs from beyond the Tomb" is a good place to start. A common enough perspective, I suppose, but the living author who has become a dead author, in this case Chateaubriand, repeatedly contemplates his future death as preferable to his melancholy, unhappy life. No number of good moments, it seems compensates for the general melancholy of mortality, at least in the eyes of the genuine romantic. But this book is much more than just a monument to the Romantic Movement. Chateaubriand, born only twenty days after Napoleon and seeing himself as somehow linked to the complex conqueror, writes of the march to Moscow and back, as well as many other Napoleonic adventures, with great shrewdness and real ambivalence. His account becomes a rich history of his own age; a history told from the perspective of a royalist with, I am sure he would insist, genuine democratic tendencies. A rewarding, important, and at times beautifully written book. Has anyone read Penguin edition, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb , which includes selections from across C's complete memoirs. I'm trying to decide where to start, and if NYRB edition has "must-read" passages omitted in Penguin ed.? Chateaubriand's Memoirs are nothing short of sublime. Oh, what a life. Who would say that the fatherly figure of French Romanticism had also been, besides an acclaimed writer, a child full of hopes and expectations; a charismatic soldier with a very vivid military career on the wrong side of history; a cool-headed politician loyal to the crown; a forcefully exiled traveler and probably a food enthusiast as well, isn't there a steak dish bearing his name? This man lived through the great late 18th century revolution, through the rise to power and downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte, through the uncertainties of the July revolution of He also met George Washington, hunted with Native Americans, worked as a French ambassador in England, among many other equally fascinanting adventures.