{"product_id":"2026100010089-secondhand-the-life-of-henry-brulard","title":"The Life Of Henry Brulard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most candid and searching works of self-examination in all of Western literature, The Life of Henry Brulard is Stendhal's unfinished autobiography, written in secret in 1835–36 and not published until decades after his death. Adopting the fictional guise of Henry Brulard, the author chronicles his own life from his Grenoble childhood through his formative years, laying bare his complicated relationship with his father, his adoration of his mother, and the fierce intellectual passions that would shape one of France's greatest novelists. Written with the same psychological acuity and ironic self-awareness that animates The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the narrative unfolds as a restless, digressive inquiry into memory, identity, and the very reliability of the self as a witness to its own history.\n\nStendhal writes not to flatter himself but to interrogate himself, and the result is a text of startling modernity — a proto-Proustian meditation on how childhood experience crystallises into character. This Merlin Press edition, translated by Jean Stewart and B. C. J. G. Knight, presents the work with scholarly fidelity and elegant English prose, making it accessible to a new generation of readers. What does it mean to truly know oneself? Stendhal poses the question with devastating honesty — and leaves the reader to reckon with the answer long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130860445915,"sku":"2026100010089-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/591b2660-3485-4087-8575-d983eebf6d8e.png?v=1786591255","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010089-secondhand-the-life-of-henry-brulard","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}