Le Rouge et le Noir ( ; French for The Red and the Black ), 1830, by Stendhal, is a historical psychological novel in two volumes, chronicling a provincial young man ’ s attempts to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work, deception and hypocrisy — yet who ultimately allows his passions to betray him.

In complete editions the first book (" Livre premier ", ending after Chapter XXX ) concludes with the quotation: “ To the Happy Few ”, a dedication variously interpreted to mean either the few readers who could understand Stendhal ’ s writing ; or a Shakespearean allusion to Henry V ( 1599 ); or a sardonic reference to the well-born of society ( viz.

Moreover, the reader wishing an exposé of the same historical background might wish to read Lucien Leuwen ( 1834 ), one of Stendhal ’ s un-finished novels, posthumously published in 1894.

Burton Raffel ’ s 2006 translation for the Modern Library is sometimes criticized, e. g., as “ actually a vulgar, anachronistic retelling of Stendhal ’ s novel.

Stendhal attended the second night of the inauguration and wrote: " There is nothing in all Europe, I won ’ t say comparable to this theatre, but which gives the slightest idea of what it is like ..., it dazzles the eyes, it enraptures the soul ...".

Angélo, like Stendhal ’ s Fabrice del Dongo ( La Chartreuse de Parme ) on whom he is modelled, is a chivalrous romantic whose quest constitutes an inquiry into the nature of happiness, while the cholera epidemic he finds himself confronted with in Provence in 1832 is an allegory for the wars that had so deeply affected Giono.

Influenced by structuralism and centered on novels by Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Stendhal, Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel ( 1981 ) considered the novel form ’ s fraught relationship to the social and ethical principles that it purports to convey.

It never registered with them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation.

Fulci wrote a plot synopsis and a screenplay for Argento and thought that he was slated to direct the film as well, but he died before filming could begin ( due to a series of delays caused by Argento's involvement with his own film, The Stendhal Syndrome, at the time ).

At the time of Orsha had been taken under control of French troops, there was a French writer Marie-Henri Beyle ( also known under the pen name Stendhal ) in a rank of intendant.

An avid reader, having already read most of Branko Ćopić's opus, he choose to devote more and more time to reading literature he would find on his own such as works by Karl May, Tone Seliškar, Momčilo Nastasijević, Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, and Stendhal, rather than studying all his subjects diligently, causing his grades to suffer somewhat.

Stendhal, who spent decades as a professional diplomat in northern Italy, gives a lively and interesting account of the court, though all of what he describes is entirely fictional, as Parma was ruled by Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma during the time of the novel.

Well-read, he cited Hesse, Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Guimarães Rosa, Nietzsche, Stendhal and Freud, all knowledge that he acquired from a literary education during his time in prison on the Isle of Gargona.

The novels of Stendhal, including The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, address issues of their contemporary society while also using themes and characters derived from the romantic movement.

# Stendhal – The Red and the Black ; The Charterhouse of Parma ; On Love

* The Stendhal Syndrome ( 1996 ; Italian: La sindrome di Stendhal ) ( also writer and producer )

# Stendhal – The Red and the Black ; The Charterhouse of Parma ; On Love

For Stendhal, " love is largely self-generated ", and falling in love a " process Stendhal calls crystallization .... Before you fall in love, you see the other person as a bare branch ; as you fall, you coat him or her with jeweled attractions about 80 percent of your own making ".

* The Stendhal Syndrome ( Dario Argento, 1996 ; Italian: La sindrome di Stendhal )

While at a museum, Anna is struck by the Stendhal syndrome, which causes people to become overwhelmed by great works of art.

To help achieve a literary effect, Stendhal wrote some of the epigraphs — literary, poetic, historic quotations — that he attributed to others.

M. Rod's books of literary criticism include Les Idées morales du temps présent ( 1897 ), an admirable Essai sur Goethe ( 1898 ), Stendhal ( 1892 ), and some columns of collected essays.

The subsequent period of renewal saw the self-educated Giono now turn to Stendhal as a literary model in the same way as previously he had been influenced by the Classics.

The literary discussion moves to European writers such as Tolstoy, Flaubert, Stendhal, and Dostoevsky.

In 1950, Ratosh founded and co-edited the literary journal Alef which published translations of the work of Stendhal, Camus, Shaw and O ' Neill.

The Stendhal syndrome was named after Henri-Marie Beyle ( January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842 ), better known by his penname Stendhal

* A portion of the 1996 Dario Argento film The Stendhal Syndrome was filmed in the museum.

The Cité Scolaire Internationale Europole ( CSI Europole ) was formerly situated downtown in the Lycée International Stendhal across from the Maison du Tourisme.

The oldest one, the Lycée Stendhal, was built in 1606 as a Jesuit College.

Also, Stendhal was much influenced by de Tracy's enlightenment ideals, and attended the De Tracy salon regularly, in the 1820s

Impressed by the art of Henry Beyle ( Stendhal ), he struck out on a new course at a moment when the realist school was the vogue in French fiction.

His 1996 film The Stendhal Syndrome, in which a policewoman ( played by Argento's daughter, Asia ) who suffers from Stendhal syndrome is trapped by a serial killer in an abandoned warehouse, was the first Italian film to use computer-generated imagery ( CGI ).

The Stendhal Syndrome was distributed in the U. S. by cult B-movie distribution company Troma Entertainment.

The pseudonym " Stendhal " of the French author Marie-Henri Beyle is generally supposed to be a homage to the German author Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who was born in Stendal in 1717.

The French writer Marie Henri Beyle, who was stationed here as a soldier during the Napoleonic Wars, used the alias Stendhal from 1817 in homage to Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

Stendhal, a veteran of several Napoleonic campaigns ( he was one of the survivors of the retreat from Russia in 1812 ), describes this famous battle as a chaotic affair with soldiers who gallop one way, then another, while bullets plow the fields around them.

The novel is cited as an early example of realism, a stark contrast to the Romantic style popular while Stendhal was writing.

It was read by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Goethe and Stendhal.

It was loved by Alexander Pushkin and Stendhal.

This opera was considered by Stendhal, Rossini's earliest biographer, to be " high amongst the composer's masterworks ".

Monte Testaccio was still used as a place of recreation when Stendhal visited in 1827.