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The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, Lampedusa, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway.
The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme, Italian: La Certosa di Parma) is a 1948 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Renée Faure, Gérard Philipe and Maria Casarès. It is based on the 1839 novel of the same name by Stendhal.
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of European history. As Balzac wrote, "Never before have ...
The Charterhouse of Parma, novel by Stendhal, published in French as La Chartreuse de Parme in 1839. It is generally considered one of Stendhal’s masterpieces, second only to The Red and the Black, and is remarkable for its highly sophisticated rendering of human psychology and its subtly drawn.
Across 27 eventful chapters, Charterhouse of Parma traces the life of one of the most memorable literary heroes of the 19th-century and beyond: the fiery yet self-possessed Italian nobleman, Fabrizio Valserra del Dongo. Fabrizio is by turns a revolutionary spirit seeking freedom, a womanizing libertine untouched by love, a student of theology ...
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The Charterhouse of Parma: Directed by Christian-Jaque. With Renée Faure, Lucien Coëdel, Louis Salou, María Casares. Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around.
The Charterhouse of Parma. By STENDHAL. Translated by RICHARD HOWARD. The Modern Library. Read the Review. Milan in 1796. On May 15, 1796, General Bonaparte entered Milan at the head...
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Sep 9, 1999 · The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage.
