# Atala: Seikkailu aarniometsässä

By François-René Chateaubriand, vicomte de.

"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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: Finnish
- Translator: Felix Borg
- Subjects: Indians of North America -- Fiction; French fiction -- Translations into Finnish

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