Stendhal (Henri Beyle)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A work of literary criticism and biography, Paul Hazard's study presents a penetrating portrait of the French novelist Henri Beyle — known to the world as Stendhal — examining the restless, contradictory genius behind masterworks such as The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Hazard chronicles the turbulent inner life of a man perpetually at war with his own era, tracing how Stendhal's romantic passions, political disillusionment, and fierce individualism shaped his revolutionary approach to the novel. Written with scholarly precision yet animated by genuine admiration, the analysis illuminates the psychological complexity that made Stendhal one of the great forerunners of literary realism and modern psychological fiction. Hazard argues that to understand Stendhal is to understand a soul in perpetual pursuit of happiness and beauty in a world that consistently denied him both, making this portrait as emotionally resonant as it is intellectually rigorous.
Author: Paul Hazard
Format: Hardback
Published: 1929, Coward-McCann, Inc.
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A work of literary criticism and biography, Paul Hazard's study presents a penetrating portrait of the French novelist Henri Beyle — known to the world as Stendhal — examining the restless, contradictory genius behind masterworks such as The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Hazard chronicles the turbulent inner life of a man perpetually at war with his own era, tracing how Stendhal's romantic passions, political disillusionment, and fierce individualism shaped his revolutionary approach to the novel. Written with scholarly precision yet animated by genuine admiration, the analysis illuminates the psychological complexity that made Stendhal one of the great forerunners of literary realism and modern psychological fiction. Hazard argues that to understand Stendhal is to understand a soul in perpetual pursuit of happiness and beauty in a world that consistently denied him both, making this portrait as emotionally resonant as it is intellectually rigorous.