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Stendhal. (1. publ.) - Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell Univ. Press (1971). 208 S. 8°
Biography of French Novelist Stendhal, pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle.
First Person, Stendhal
Additional Contributors Include Austryn Wainhouse, Richard Gilman, Kimon Friar, And Others. Drawings By Finley Burke.
Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death in 1829 (?). Fabrice's early years are spent in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both in modern-day Italy).
Stendhal
Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors—Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal is a writer of extraordinary insight into psychology and the many shades of individual and political liberty. Brombert has spent a lifetime reading and teaching Stendhal and here, by focusing on the seemingly contradictory themes of inner freedom and outer constraint within Stendhal’s writings, he offers a revealing analysis of both his work and his life. For Brombert, Stendhal’s work is deeply per...
Stendhal
Each new volume is a biographical and critical review of one of the world's most important writers with expert analysis by Harold Bloom.
A Lion for Love
Traces the life of the nineteenth century French novelist, attempts to portray his complex personality, and analyzes his major works.
Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Stendhal's great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In this introductory study, Stirling Haig shows how this realism derives from the incorporation of both history and legal reportage into the novel, and how it combines autobiography with mimesis. Professor Haig locates the novel in the context of Stendhal's own experiences as a Commissariat officer in the Napoleonic army, journalist, opera-lover, salon dandy and traveller in Italy and Restoration France, and highlights the constant inter-penetration of personal, documentary, and fictional elements in Stendhal's writings.
