My Hermit’s Life
Tim Parks: Chateaubriand, 27 September 2018
Memoirs from beyond the Grave 1768-1800
by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by Alex Andriesse.
NYRB, 512 pp., £12.99, January 2018,978 1 68137 129 0 Show More
by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by Alex Andriesse.
NYRB, 512 pp., £12.99, January 2018,
“... The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Likewise François-René deChateaubriand. Again and again, in this first volume of Memoirs from beyond the Grave, a character is introduced only for their death to be immediately announced. ‘President Le Pelletier de Rosambo, who later died with such courage, was, when I arrived in Paris, a model of frivolity ... ”
