9 results for '"CHATEAUBRIAND"'

Voici les trois textes fondateurs du romantisme. Chacun évoque un des paysages magiques de la sensibilité moderne : Grenade et une Espagne que l'Europe avait oubliée depuis Don Juan, les forêts...

Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Barthes, and Sebald. Here, in the first books of...

The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands...

Product Description François Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715-1794) fut un intellectuel précipité sur la scène du pouvoir. Vailland trame autour de ce destin fastueux les questions de l'homme...

A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects―“the first is Talleyrand, and the second is...

Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel...

As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical...

De 1815 à 1885, la France aura vu se succéder dans une logique trépidante six régimes : la brève résurrection de l'Empire, la Restauration, la monarchie de Juillet, la IIe République, le Second...

“Like the diary of Samuel Pepys or the memoirs of François-René de Chateaubriand, Beloved Son Felix [is] an invaluable and entertaining firsthand exploration of a bygone era . . . We are allowed a...