Atala: In Contempoary American English

Chateaubriand was a leading literary figure in the French Romanticism movement, and his prolific literary works influenced subsequent generations of younger authors. Lush lyrical descriptions—particularly of nature as one finds in Atala—together with moral issues fill the inner life of his characters. But that isn’t too surprising since the author himself was not only a romantic, but also a religious apologist and an aesthete.