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A Taste for Freedom (Paperback)

By: Anka Muhlstein (Author)


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"[A] most excellent account of a fascinating man and its appearance in a fine English translation is to be welcomed."

"[Muhlstein's] task was not to turn up new material through elaborate research but rather to being a dead man back to life in a way that would speak to the general educated reader today. She succeeded admirably."

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As a four-year-old boy, Astolphe de Custine (1790-1857) saw his mother taken from him and thrown into prison during the turbulent years following the French Revolution. As a grown man, he became passionately devoted to personal liberty and, as a homosexual, was the first member of French high society to live an openly conjugal life with another man. A talented writer, he traveled to Czarist Russia and returned to France to author a devastating account of despotism and the moral perversion of violent regimes. More than a century later, George Kennan praised Custine's book, Russia in 1838, as the best book available on Russia because it so perfectly explained the roots and consequences of a country's dependence on autocratic power. In this wonderfully readable new biography -- already published to high acclaim in France -- Anka Muhlstein stages a dramatic and fascinating account of the life of Astolphe de Custine, the child, the man, and the writer, set against the rich backdrops of revolutionary France and Czarist Russia.

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This biography of French aristocrat Astolphe de Custine (1790-1857) chronicles his life as a member of high society and as a member of a rich homosexual subculture. Custine's Paris mansion was a salon for writers and musicians such as Balzac, Chopin, and Berlioz, and was where he lived openly with another man. Custine is known for his writings, which included travel books and perhaps his most famous work, RUSSIA IN 1838.



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