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Original Title:	Atala / René
ISBN:	0520002237 (ISBN13: 9780520002234)
Edition Language:	English

Atala / René Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

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Title	:	Atala / René
Author	:	François-René de Chateaubriand
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1952 by University of California Press (first published 1801)
Categories	:	Cultural. France. Fiction. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century

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Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English romanticists, on explorers in America, and on Goethe's Werther, he had a profound effect on French writers from Victor Hugo and Lamartine to George Sand and Flaubert. A quixotic and paradoxical personality, he combined impressive careers as a brilliant prose-poet, a spiritual guide, a high-ranking diplomat, and an enterprising lover.

Atala and René are his two best-known works, reflecting not only his own joys, aspirations, and despair, but the emerging tastes of a new literary era. Atala is the passionate and tragic love story of a young Indian couple wandering in the wilderness, enthralled by the beauties of nature, drawn to a revivified Christianity by its esthetic charm and consoling beneficence, and finally succumbing to the cruelty of fate. Perhaps even more than Werther or Childe Harold, René embodies the romantic hero, and is not wholly foreign to the disorientation of youth today. Solitary, mysterious, ardent, and poetic, he is in open revolt against a society whose values he rejects. Withough question this archetype played a large part in determining the course of French literature up to the 1850's.

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how did they get to India in the 1800s

It is good to learn the French literary Romanticism through these works of its father; and also the author seems to know something about America, especially in its flora and fauna, and the native people to a lesser degree. But to me, it is just, well, too romanticist, too artificial. He does not even pretend to have much ground for his creation.

René, one of the ultimate Emo books, marks the beginning of the French Romantic movement and is akin to Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Alfred de Musset's La Confession d'un enfant du siècle. Atala is beautiful in its descriptive elegance and, despite Chateaubriand's intentions, to me is an effective critique against rigid and blind allegiance to Christian religiosity.

Dreamlike, self-conscious, protracted suffering in the midst of an imagined wilderness, surrounded by noble savages, and visions of a christian socialist utopia.

This book was hard to swallow. Chateaubriand warns readers in advance: If I do not affect the heart, I shall raise a smile. Maiden addressing a prisoner as "poor young idolater" and "young handsome captive". Pagan seeing a priest celebrating mass and crying out: "O the charm of religion! O the magnificence of Christian worship!" Passionate savages, weeping and fainting heroes, noble hermit surrounded in his grotto by supernatural radiance, moonlit cemeteries.But all this pales in comparison with

Chateaubriand's two novellas about the comforts of Christianity and tortured souls in conflict with society inspired the early Romantic writers. It was something new under the sun at the time and many contemporaries felt it was a powerful expression of the discontent felt by many. However, time has not been kind and to these modern eyes "Rene" is a nearly unreadable chronicle of moping aristocrats who feel they have plumbed the depths of despair. "Atala" is even worse, adding a heaping dose of

Mostly because he has few equals in the mastery of french (prose) language.