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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.
Apr 9, 2024 · Stendhal (born January 23, 1783, Grenoble, France—died March 23, 1842, Paris) was one of the most original and complex French writers of the first half of the 19th century, chiefly known for his works of fiction. His finest novels are Le Rouge et le noir (1830; The Red and the Black) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839; The Charterhouse of Parma ).
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 ...
Stendhal - Novels, Essays, Biographies: 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.
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.
Stendhal , orig. Marie-Henri Beyle, (born Jan. 23, 1783, Grenoble, France—died March 23, 1842, Paris), French novelist. He left for Paris in 1799 partly to escape his father’s rule. By 1802 he was keeping a diary (posthumously published as his Journal) and writing other texts dealing with his intimate thoughts.
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.
