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 a...
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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 wor...
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In the following excerpt, Josephson examines Stendhal's thematic approach to the Italian Chronicles.
One cherished literary project that Stendhal reserved for his leave of absence was that o...
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In the following essay, Gide discusses the theme of impotence in Armance.
To speak properly of Stendhal, one would have to have something of his style. If we take his word for it, he almost always ...
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In the following excerpt, Turnell examines Armance to see what light it sheds on Stendhal's later work, his times, and nineteenth century psychology.
Stendhal's first novel was not th...
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In the following excerpt, George offers a survey of Stendhal's Italian-themed short fiction.
With the exception of the Chroniques italiennes, Stendhal's ventures into short prose have...
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In the following essay, Déon examines the character of Mina as depicted in The Pink and the Green and "Mina de Vanghel."
The writer, too, knows the state of grace. At the start o...
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In the following essay, Sieburth offers a favorable appraisal of The Pink and the Green and "Mina de Vanghel."
"Many of the works of the ancients have become fragments,"...
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In the following essay, Diamond discusses Oedipal symbolism in Armance.
Armance is a tantalizing text. Its dominant protagonist, Octave de Malivert, is tormented by some terrible secret, something ...
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In the following excerpt, Talbot examines characteristic themes in Stendhal's short fiction.
While Stendhal is better known as a novelist than as a writer of short stories, his interest in s...
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In the following excerpt, Waller analyzes Armance as a male writer's reworking of the traditionally femaleauthored sentimental novel.
By the 1820s, the mal du siècle was no longer prima...
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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
...
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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 al...
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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 al...
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Upper East Side real-estate brokers like to speculate about the future of Frederick Warburg Peters. His exclusive and independent little brokerage, the storyline goes, may be fated for what so many...
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1. Finger Lakes Nestled snugly between Lake Ontario and the northern border of Pennsylvania, the Finger Lakes district of New York State is a popular summertime playground for kids of all ages, att...
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Stendhal
Stendhal
Critical Essay by Matthew Josephson
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