Marie-Henri Beyle ( January 23 , 1783 – March 23 , 1842 ), better known by his penname Stendhal , was a 19th century French writer. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 De L'Amour (On Love) (1822) 1.2 Armance (1827) 1.3 Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)...
Among the four greatest novelists of nineteenth-century France, Stendhal is noteworthy for the intensity of conscience and feeling in his characters, and for beginning his publication of fictional works later in life than did Honoré de Balzac,...
The works of the French author Stendhal (1783-1842) mark the transition in France from romanticism to realism. His masterpieces--The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma--provide incisive and ironic depictions of love and the will to power....
Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost...
Stendhal first came into my life through the impassioned offices of Dr. Floyd Zulli. Improbable as it may sound to a younger generation, this professor with dark-rimmed glasses, a crew cut, and a zeal for world literature had mesmerized our household and thousands like...
Stendhal Dictionnaire de Stendhal. Publie sous la direction de Yves Ansel, Philippe Berthier and Michael Nerlich (Dictionnaires et references, 9). Paris: Honore Champion, 2003. 776 pp. Euro115. "This dictionary is part of a series which has already covered Rousseau, Diderot and Voltaire. Its...
There may be a recession in the publishing industry, but a newly translated edition of the Dostoyevsky masterpiece ''The Brothers Karamazov,'' published by Kobunsha Co., flew off shelves at bookstores this summer. Kobunsha has been publishing pocketbook-sized editions of newly translated foreign...
This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what...
