Memoirs From Beyond The Grave

Francois Rene Chateaubriand

Written over the course of four decades, Francois-Rene L de Chateaubriand's epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on ...