by François-René de Chateaubriand · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420656205
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«Memorias de ultratumba» is the memoir by François-René de Chateaubriand, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (528 pages, in Spanish).
Chateaubriand conceived these memoirs for posthumous publication, and in them he reviews his life as soldier, traveler, man of letters and statesman: French history from the Revolution to Louis Philippe of Orleans, his intervention in Spanish affairs in 1823, and his travels through America, England, Italy and Jerusalem.
This edition belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection and includes a selection and prologue by Arturo Ramoneda. The French original is titled Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe.
For readers of memoirs, historical biography and nineteenth-century French literature interested in the figure of Chateaubriand and his era.
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.
