by Jean-Paul Kauffmann · La Table Ronde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782710307723
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«La Chambre noire de Longwood: Le voyage à Sainte-Hélène» is a travelogue and historical essay by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in paperback and in French.
Napoleon spent his final years confined on the remote island of Saint Helena. The author travels there and combines the travel chronicle with an investigation into life at Longwood: the seclusion, the damp, the tedium and the surveillance. He argues that Napoleon was poisoned by nostalgia for his glory, in a meditation on historical melancholy.
Published by La Table Ronde in 1997. It won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and the Scott Moncrieff Prize; nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
For readers interested in Napoleonic history, travel writing and non-fiction literature.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann is a French journalist and writer.
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