THE IMAGE OF ITALY IN THE WORK OF CHATEAUBRIAND

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.