Atala and ReneUniversity of California Press, 1952 M01 1 - 128 páginas 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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... heart . Rousseau saw the divine presence in the beauty and harmony of the universe . Frenchmen found a profusion of emotion in English literature — Richardson , Fielding , Gray , Young , and Thomson were avidly read in France in the ...
... heart . Rousseau saw the divine presence in the beauty and harmony of the universe . Frenchmen found a profusion of emotion in English literature — Richardson , Fielding , Gray , Young , and Thomson were avidly read in France in the ...
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... heart ; I wept and I believed . " He now conceived the idea of writing a work which would be at once a personal expiation of his faithless past and an apology of Christianity . He began his composition when he was still in England . In ...
... heart ; I wept and I believed . " He now conceived the idea of writing a work which would be at once a personal expiation of his faithless past and an apology of Christianity . He began his composition when he was still in England . In ...
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... heart so deeply , and none is so apt to inspire works of genius . Thus his book is a poet's argument . His reasons are addressed to the heart and the senses ; beauty becomes the measure of truth . This , in fact , is the Chris- tianity ...
... heart so deeply , and none is so apt to inspire works of genius . Thus his book is a poet's argument . His reasons are addressed to the heart and the senses ; beauty becomes the measure of truth . This , in fact , is the Chris- tianity ...
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... Heart , " and the second to warn of the dangers of solitude and vague passions and to show how religion can heal the wounds caused by them . Originally , however , Atala had been intended as an epi- sode of The Natchez , the epic of the ...
... Heart , " and the second to warn of the dangers of solitude and vague passions and to show how religion can heal the wounds caused by them . Originally , however , Atala had been intended as an epi- sode of The Natchez , the epic of the ...
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Amelia arms Atala beauty began bosom breast brother burning cabin calm Chactas Chattahoochee River child Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Christian clouds consolation cried daugh daughter dear death divine dreams earth elders exile eyes Father Aubry Father Souël feeling feet felt fire Florida flowers forest Fort Rosalie France French Genius of Christianity grave grew grotto hand happy heard heart heaven hermit Indian Indian tombs innocence land leave lips live Lopez Louis XIV Madame Récamier Meschacebe missionary moss mother mountain Muskogees mysterious Natchez nature never night Note of Chateaubriand once Ossian Outalissi passion pine pirogues pity priest religion René René's river rock sachem Saint-Malo savages savannah seemed shores silence Simaghan sister solitude soon sorrow Sorrows of Werther soul Spirit storm suddenly tears tender thought tomb tree voice vows wander warrior waters waves wilderness wind woman woods words young