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It situates the novel within the late eighteenth-century shift from rationalist critique toward feeling, emotion, nature imagery, and the search for spiritual consolation. The text also outlines cultural currents shaping the period and sketches Chateaubriand’s early life in Brittany, connecting his temperament to the novel’s themes.","Atala/René  \nChateaubriand  \nUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS  \nCHATEAUBRIAND  \nAtala  \nRené  \nA New Translation by IRVING PUTTER  \nBerkeley,Los Angeles,LondonUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS  \nUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESSBERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS,LTD.LONDON,ENGLANDCOPYRIGHT,1952,BY THE  \nREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIACOPYRIGHT,1980,BY IRVING PUTTER  \nISBN:0-520-00223-7  \nPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  \n08072524232221  \nTHE PAPER USED IN THIS PUBLICATION IS BOTHACID-FREEAND TOTALLY CHLORINE-FREE(TCF).IT'MEETS THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OFANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992(R 1997)(PERMANENCE OF PAPER).∞  \nTO THE MEMORYOF MY PARENTS  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nFew books in France have met with the successwhich greeted Atala in 1801.Within a year of its publica-tion it boasted five French editions,and its success spreadrapidly abroad as Spanish,Italian,German,and Englishtranslations appeared in quick succession.Overnight Cha-teaubriand was catapulted from obscurity to the heightsof the literary firmament,where he remained for the restof his life as a star of the first magnitude.It was hardlynecessary to read the book to know about Atala,her lover,and Father Aubry;their waxen images stood like littlesaints in the stalls along the Seine,reproductions hung inthe inns,their likenesses were used to adorn brass clocksor dinnerware,and the characters were represented on thestage.  \nWhat qualities could the book have to attract such en-thusiasm?Probably no simple answer would suffice,but onefact stands out:Atala—and The Genius of Christianity,which was published the following year—could not haveappeared at a more opportune moment in French history.  \nAfter the violent decade of the 179o's France could lookback on a long period of glory and suffering.She had spreadher intellectual and political hegemony over most of Europein the seventeenth century,and she could not forget thebrilliant heritage of Louis XIV,Racine,and Bossuet.Inthe following century—the century of Voltaire,Diderot,and Rousseau—men sought passionately,in an atmosphereof intellectual ferment,for new answers to age-old philosophical and social problems.What is man's place in thecosmos?How must we view God?Is civilization a blessingor a curse?All these questions are echoed in Atala.  \nThe eighteenth century had largely been the centuryof the search for truth.Reason and analysis were the order  \n1  \nIntroduction  \n2  \nof the day.Man as a rational being and man's social behaviorwere explored.Religion was undermined,and Christianityattacked as ridiculous in its beliefs,cruel in its methods,and an enemy of culture.Nature was virtually ignored.Thescintillating and incisive style of Voltaire,bare of emotionalappeal,was the proper vehicle for such a society.  \nThe reaction came as the century wore on.New valueswere sought that would satisfy not the intellect,but theheart.Rousseau saw the divine presence in the beauty andharmony of the universe.Frenchmen found a profusion ofemotion in English literature—Richardson,Fielding,Gray,Young,and Thomson were avidly read in France in thelatter part of the eighteenth century.The mysterious atmos-phere of Ossian,which had so fascinated Goethe in hisWerther,also had its effect on young men growing up inFrance just before the revolution;its influence is manifestin Rene's solitary wanderings over the heath.And Wertheritself,with its portrayal of love related to a quest afterthe absolute and despair with the human condition,result-ing in suicide,produced a profound impression in France.Fifteen translations,adaptations,or editions of Wertherappeared in France between 1776 and 1797;Renée's tem-perament bears many comparisons with the temperamentof the young German.Thus Frenchmen sought new 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