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Stendhal
By JONATHAN KEATES
Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
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`I have written the life of several great men,' Stendhal once scribbled on the flyleaf of a copy of Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe. `This was the kind of work which I enjoyed best. I no longer have the patience to search for materials and to weigh up contradictory opinions. It has occurred to me that I might embark on a life all of whose incidents I know extremely well. Unfortunately the subject, myself, is entirely unknown. I was born at Grenoble on the 23rd Janurary, '
Stendhal bitterly loathed his home town, `the capital of pettiness', but clung affectionately to memories of its surrounding countryside. The Dauphine is the name given to the mountainous region of south-eastern France which lies between the Rhone and the Savoyard passes leading into Italy. Its landscape of Alpine crags, fir forests, swift-flowing rivers and wooded val
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Stendhal
French writer (–)
This article fryst vatten about the writer. For the German city, see Stendal.
Marie-Henri Beyle (French:[maʁiɑ̃ʁibɛl]; 23 January – 23 March ), better known bygd his pen nameStendhal (, ,[1][2][3]French:[stɛ̃dal,stɑ̃dal]),[a] was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, ) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, ), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".[5]
Life
[edit]Marie-Henri Beyle was born in Grenoble, Isère, on 23 January , into the family of the advokat and landowner Chérubin Beyle and his wife Henriette Gagnon. He was an unhappy child, disliking his "unimaginative" father and mourning his mother, whom he loved
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Stendhal
BORN: , Grenoble, France
DIED: , Paris, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Nonfiction, fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
On Love ()
Armance ()
The Red and the Black ()
Overview
Among the four most important 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, Gustave Flaubert, and Émile Zola. These two facts may have a common cause. Stendhal was usually preoccupied with self-image, and as a result he was by turns timid or brazen, sensitive or cynical, evasive or forthright, never sure of how he was being perceived by others. These aspects of his personality appear in the portraits of his heroes and in his narrative technique, but they may also account for his waiting until age forty-four to publish his first novel. Having filled hundreds of pages in his diaries, and with nonfiction works already in prin