The Life Of Henry Brulard
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few autobiographies in the Western canon are as bracingly honest, as psychologically penetrating, or as defiantly unconventional as The Life of Henry Brulard — the memoir that Stendhal never dared to publish in his own lifetime. Written in secret between 1835 and 1836, the work chronicles the formative years of Henri Beyle (Stendhal's real name), from his childhood in Grenoble through his early manhood, casting a cold, clear eye on the family tensions, romantic obsessions, and political upheavals that forged one of France's greatest literary minds. Using the fictional alter ego Henry Brulard, the author presents a confessional narrative of startling candour, refusing the polished self-mythologizing that defined so much Romantic autobiography. This first English edition offers Anglophone readers direct access to a text that illuminates the inner architecture of the man who would write The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Stendhal's style here is digressive and restless, peppered with self-interrogations and sudden bursts of wit, mirroring the very workings of memory and consciousness — anticipating the stream-of-consciousness techniques of the twentieth century. A foundational document of European literary history, The Life of Henry Brulard asks a question that haunts every page: can any man truly know himself, or is the self always just out of reach?
Author: Stendhal
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few autobiographies in the Western canon are as bracingly honest, as psychologically penetrating, or as defiantly unconventional as The Life of Henry Brulard — the memoir that Stendhal never dared to publish in his own lifetime. Written in secret between 1835 and 1836, the work chronicles the formative years of Henri Beyle (Stendhal's real name), from his childhood in Grenoble through his early manhood, casting a cold, clear eye on the family tensions, romantic obsessions, and political upheavals that forged one of France's greatest literary minds. Using the fictional alter ego Henry Brulard, the author presents a confessional narrative of startling candour, refusing the polished self-mythologizing that defined so much Romantic autobiography. This first English edition offers Anglophone readers direct access to a text that illuminates the inner architecture of the man who would write The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Stendhal's style here is digressive and restless, peppered with self-interrogations and sudden bursts of wit, mirroring the very workings of memory and consciousness — anticipating the stream-of-consciousness techniques of the twentieth century. A foundational document of European literary history, The Life of Henry Brulard asks a question that haunts every page: can any man truly know himself, or is the self always just out of reach?