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Atala: Seikkailu aarniometsässä

by François-René Chateaubriand, vicomte de

Translated by Felix Borg

"Atala: Seikkailu aarniometsässä" by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand is a novella published in 1801. An elderly Natchez man named Chactas recounts his youth to a French companion: captured by enemy tribes and sentenced to death, he encounters Atala, a mysterious woman who helps him escape into the wilderness. Their flight through untamed North America leads to unexpected revelations about their pasts and a tragic conflict between love and sacred vows, set against vivid descriptions of an Edenic landscape.

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