Stendhal - Couverture souple

Manzini, Francesco

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789141575 ISBN 13 : 9781789141573

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2019

Synopsis

This is a book about the life and work of a singular writer, an author well-known for his biographies and travel writing but most famous for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. As a child, Stendhal witnessed the unfolding of the French Revolution; as a young man, he served Napoleon first as a soldier and then as an administrator; and as a middle-aged man, he made it his task not to pursue his career, but instead to take as much paid leave as possible in order to be free and to be happy--and to write. Stendhal's works often take the form of conversations with his readers--the "Happy Few" as he called them--about the things that matter most. He once claimed that he spent the majority of his life "carefully considering five or six main ideas." This book makes clear what those main ideas were, why they mattered to Stendhal, and why they continue to matter to all of us.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francesco Manzini is a research fellow and tutor in French at Oriel College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Stendhal's Parallel Lives and The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789141575
• ISBN 13: 9781789141573
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible