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Writer. Literary movement. Realism, Romanticism. Marie-Henri Beyle ( French: [bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal ( UK: / ˈstɒ̃dɑːl /, US: / stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ -/; [1] [2] [3] French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal] ), [a] was a 19th-century French writer.
Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a nineteenth century French writer and novelist. He is known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology and for the dryness of his writing style.
Stendhal. Marie-Henri Beyle was born on 23 January 1783 in Grenoble, Isere, a district in France. He is better known by his pen name Stendhal. His father was a lawyer by profession and his mother passed away when he was 7 years old. He was an unhappy child aggravated by the lack of ‘imagination’ of his father.
Stendhal Biography. Henri Beyle (Stendhal) was born in 1783, in Grenoble, into a respectable, middle-class family. Chérubin Beyle, Stendhal's father, a reactionary in politics, was an industrious, narrow-minded bourgeois, whom Henri detested and to whom he later referred as the "bâtard." Stendhal loved his mother tenderly, but this delightful ...
Jun 27, 2018 · French Literature: Biographies. Stendhal. views 2,489,169 updated Jun 27 2018. Stendhal. BORN: 1783, Grenoble, France. DIED: 1842, Paris, France. NATIONALITY: French. GENRE: Nonfiction, fiction. MAJOR WORKS: On Love (1822) Armance (1827) The Red and the Black (1830) Overview.
Contents. Home Literature Novels & Short Stories Novelists L-Z. Works of Stendhal. During Stendhal’s lifetime, his reputation was largely based on his books dealing with the arts and with tourism (a term he helped introduce in France), and on his political writings and conversational wit.
Le Rouge et le Noir (French pronunciation: [lə ʁuʒ e l(ə) nwaʁ]; meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and ...
