Stendhal

The red and the black

The charterhouse of Parma

The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and bares his rebellious heart. His adored mother, who died when he was only seven; a father devoted only to his own social ambitions; the aunt whose daily cruelties passed for care: these are among the indelible portraits in a work that captures the sights, sounds, places, and characters of Stendhal's youth, its pleasures and sorrows, with preternatural clarity and immediacy. Full of dazzling images and burning emotions, The Life of Henry Brulard is a vivid memoir that is also an extraordinary work of the imagination.

The Life of Henry Brulard

Raymond N. MacKenzie

A Chronicle Of 1830

Red and Black

الأحمر والأسود

La Chartreuse De Parme

« Stendhal révolutionnera l’histoire dès lors qu’on saura le lire depuis un temps à venir. » Patrick Boucheron Ce recueil de quatre récits, où s’entremêlent passions et assassinats, est une ode à l’Italie. Stendhal, qui s’est directement inspiré de manuscrits du XVIe siècle pour les composer, y fraye comme jamais avec l’histoire. Persuadé que la Révolution française n’a pas encore produit son effet sur la littérature, il fait de ces « historiettes romaines » le terrain d’exploration de lui-même en se reliant aux écritures passées. Patrick Boucheron répond ici au défi que l’écrivain lançait aux historiens de profession. Il décrypte ainsi le pas de deux que mènent, aujourd’hui comme hier, discipline historique et invention romanesque. Il souligne en particulier combien ces textes font écho à nos questionnements sur les discours de vérité.

Historiettes romaines

Lamiel

Le rouge et le noir

Abbess of Castro

En un aserradero perdido en los bosques del Franco Condado, un joven seminarista despreciado por su ruda familia, lleno de sueños y ambiciones, lee un libro. Poco sospecha que su vida está a punto de dar un giro decisivo y que su entrada como preceptor en casa de monsieur de Rênal será el comienzo de su apertura al amor, a la vida y, finalmente, al crimen. En esta novela, inspirada en un hecho real, su joven e inolvidable protagonista, Julián Sorel. Plebeyo enamorado y soberbio, rebelde e ingenuo, se verá sometido a la cruel piedra de toque que le ofrece un mundo dominado por las jerarquías, el dinero y el clero.

Rojo y negro

Il rosso e il nero. Cronaca del 1830

Собрание сочинений в 12 томах. Том 3

La Vida de Henry Brulard

L'abbesse de Castro

Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma

Noir par son réalisme, teinté du rouge de la passion et du crime, Le Rouge et le Noir est le récit d'une ascension et d'une chute : celles de Julien Sorel, fils de charpentier, prêt à tout pour se faire admettre dans les salons dorés de l'aristocratie parisienne. Son talent, sa ruse et son pouvoir de séduction suffiront-ils à l'arracher à sa condition ? Chef-d'oeuvre du roman d'analyse psychologique, chronique de la France sous la Restauration, première fiction mettant en scène la lutte des classes et la violence des déterminismes sociaux, Le Rouge et le Noir, paru en 1830, est le plus célèbre des romans de Stendhal. Cruel et ironique, il a captivé des générations de lecteurs, de Balzac à Julien Gracq, en passant par Zola et Aragon.

Le Rouge et le Noir

O Vermelho e o Negro - Volume II

Branquinho da Fonseca

Maria Manuel

O vermelho e o negro

Balzac considered it the most important French novel of his time. André Gide later deemed it the greatest of all French novels, and Henry James judged it to be a masterpiece. Now, in a major literary event, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished translator Richard Howard presents a new rendition of Stendhal's epic tale of romance, adventure, and court intrigue set in early nineteenth-century Italy. The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the exploits of Fabrizio del Dongo, an ardent young aristocrat who joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo. Yet perhaps the novel's most unforgettable characters are the hero's beautiful aunt, the alluring Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover, Count Mosca, who plot to further Fabrizio's political career at the treacherous court of Parma in a sweeping story that illuminates an entire epoch of European history. "Stendhal has written The Prince up to date, the novel that Machiavelli would write if he were living banished from Italy in the nineteenth century," noted Balzac in his famous review of The Charterhouse of Parma. "Never before have the hearts of princes, ministers, courtiers, and women been depicted like this. . . . One sees perfection in every detail. . . . [It] has the magnitude of a canvas fifty feet by thirty, and at the same time the manner, the execution, is Dutch in its minuteness. . . . The Charterhouse of Parma often contains a whole book in a single page. . . . It is a masterpiece." This edition includes original illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker and Notes and a Translator's Afterword by Richard Howard.

The Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal

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