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Chateaubriand

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

Name: Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: 8369039f-565e-d465-166c-3e1875778792-de-fr
Price: 80.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Chateaubriand

Original publication: 1848
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 972
Difficulty: ★★★
Genres: Biography and Autobiography, Philosophy
Translated from: Français

About this book

An aging narrator looks back on his life, his commitments, and the historical upheavals he has lived through. Between personal memories and political reflections, he retraces the landmark events of his era. Places, encounters, and ideas succeed one another in a rich, introspective fresco. The author combines intimate storytelling with an analysis of the world, giving his testimony unique depth. This work explores memory, time, and the meaning of existence in a dense, ambitious prose.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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