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Tragic and Melodramatic: A Profile of Stendhal |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / WRITERS AND WRITING |
| Author: Cynthia Grenier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 2,427 Words, 14,752 Characters |
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Stendhal, one of the giants of nineteenth-century French literature, came into the world in Grenoble, January 23, 1783, as Marie-Henri Beyle, although that was only one of myriad--some claim over two hundred--names under which he chose to conceal his real identity, assigning himself colorful pseudonyms even in his copious journals and letters to friends. He was truly a drole d'oiseau (odd bird) no matter how one looks at his life, indeed as Henry James observed quite justly of him: "Stendhal was a most singular character." Yet his two great novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma continue to be read--far more today than in his lifetime--and both in recent years have been translated anew.
Henri Beyle (biographers refer to him thus, dropping the "Marie") was born into a...
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...s following in the steps of her ancestor, as she has recounted to Julien, the death and treatment of the lover's remains. (As a literary curiosity, a near contemporary of Stendhal, Alexandre Dumas described in his 1845 novel La Reine Margot, the eponymous queen bearing away the head of her executed lover Hyacinthe de La Mole. Could The Red and the Black, published in 1830, have inspired Dumas?)
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