Stendhal's Violin: A Novelist and his Reader

by Roger Pearson

Stendhal lets his readers experience in the act of reading what his protagonists experience in the act of living, argues this original, well-written study about the relationship between novelist and reader. Novels discussed include Armance , Le Rouge et le Noir , Lucien Leuwen , and La Chartreuse de Parme .

310 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 1988