VOL. 59, BOOK 1, PART B, 2021, pp. 161-168 Full text (Bg)
Author:
Ivanka Nenova
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
This text studies the image of Italy seen by the man, writer and diplomat Chateaubriand. This is a country which occupies a special place in his work. Whether that be in Voyage en Italie, travel notes oscillating – in terms of form and genre – between letters to friends and a diary recounting his stay in 1803, or in Les Martyrs, an epic novel, or even in his autobiographical work Les Mémoires d’outre-tombe.
Key words: Chateaubriand, diplomat, Italy, flow of time, transience of man, beauty of nature, human perception
