It is a long time before he is persuaded to reveal the cause of his melancholy. René, a desperately unhappy young Frenchman, seeks refuge among the Natchez people of Louisiana. René enjoyed such immediate popularity that it was republished separately in 1805 along with Atala. René was first published as part of Chateaubriand's Génie du christianisme along with another novella, Atala although it was in fact an excerpt from a long prose epic the author had composed between 17 called Les Natchez, which would not be made public until 1826. Like the German novel, it deals with a sensitive and passionate young man who finds himself at odds with contemporary society. The work had an immense impact on early Romanticism, comparable to that of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. René is a short novella by François-René de Chateaubriand, which first appeared in 1802.
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