The Private Diaries of Stendhal by Stendhal

RM 2CNP71HPortrait of Marie-Henri Beyle, dit Stendhal. He once described the novelist's function as that of a person carrying a mirror down a highway so that the mirror would reflect life as it was, for all society. Find the perfect stendhal stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image.

Stendhal was a precursor of the realism of Flaubert. Stendhal's heroes are sensitive, emotional individuals who are in conflict with the society in which they live, yet they have the intelligence and detachment to analyze their society and its faults. They are an interesting blend of romantic emotionalism and eighteenth-century realism. Stendhal's novels feature heroes who reject any form of authority that would restrain their sense of individual freedom. In 1821, he returned to Paris for a life of literature, politics, and love affairs. After Napoleon's fall, Stendhal lived for six years in Italy, a country he loved during his entire life. Stendhal served with Napoleon's army in the campaign in Russia in 1812, which helped inspire the famous war scenes in his novel The Red and the Black (1831). Therefore, Stendhal left home as soon as he could. He detested his father, a lawyer from Grenoble, France, whose only passion in life was making money. A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he Stendhal Men, Imagination, Half Stendhal (2015). It was written in 18 but published in 1890, long after his death. Stendhal Reading, People, Suffering Stendhal (2016).

One of the great French novelists of the nineteenth century, Stendhal (pseudonym for Marie-Henri Beyle) describes his unhappy youth with sensitivity and intelligence in his autobiographical novel The Life of Henri Brulard.

The Private Diaries of Stendhal by Stendhal