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"Memoirs from the Grave" is the memoirs of Chateaubriand, the pioneer of French Romanticism. In the book, the author comprehensively reviews his turbulent life, describes childhood memories, expresses literary opinions, and gives wonderful descriptions of important social events at that time, such as the French Revolution, forming "the epic of the era in which I lived." "Memoirs from the Grave" not only has the scale of an epic, but also has the spirit and spirit of an epic. Chateaubriand is not telling his personal story. His pain, his joy, his melancholy, his passion, and his contemplation are all displayed against the grand historical background of France, Europe, and even the world, with a far-reaching and profound sense of time and space.

In the picturesque and colorful scenery of the majestic Mississippi River and the American wilderness on both sides, the blind old chief Shakdas told the French young man René his bumpy love story with "Adala". "René" is a true portrayal of Chateaubriand's own experience. René was born in a declining aristocratic family. He grew up in loneliness and melancholy since childhood. He has a sentimental and world-weary personality. The sudden alienation of his only relative, his sister Amelie, plunged him into infinite melancholy and pain. With the vague longing for his sister Amélie, he left his hometown and roamed around, and finally plunged into the wasteland of the new world, where he met Shakdas...