Stendhal: The Red and the Black and the Charterhouse of Parma

by Roger Pearson (Editor)

Both critic and writer, Stendhal has now become established as one of realism's founding fathers. Dr Pearson's book maps out, for the first time, the critical reception of Stendhal's two most widely read novels, The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma since their publication in 1830 and 1839 respectively. In part one he provides generous samples of the most important nineteenth-century responses to the novels, almost all of them translated into English for the first time. Part two presents a full range of the most authoritative and influential readings since 1945, which illustrate a wide variety of critical approaches.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of those books that calls you to spend a month on Lake Cuomo contemplating the Napoleonic Wars and your next love affair. And yet, one ought not have the affair with one's aunt as our hero learns more slowly than most ... But still magnificently written in a style that bridges the 18th and 19th centuries, half picaresque, half Stendhal has no idea what.