by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand · EPI · tapa dura · ISBN 9782850184710
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«Atala, René» is a volume bringing together two short novels by François-René de Chateaubriand, published by EPI in hardcover (184 pages, in French).
Atala tells the tragic love between Atala, a young Christian woman, and Chactas, a captive Indian, on the banks of the Mississippi. René presents a melancholy young man in search of meaning; two stories of French Romanticism that explore passion, faith and nature.
1985 edition from the Grands Écrivains collection; the cover reproduces an oil portrait of the author.
For readers of French classics and Romanticism, particularly those studying nineteenth-century narrative.
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1822 to 1824 and as the French ambassador to Sweden, Prussia, the United Kingdom, and the Papal States.
