Stendhal: The Education Of A Novelist
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Few figures in the history of European literature are as paradoxical and fascinating as Stendhal — the soldier-turned-novelist whose fierce intellect and emotional intensity gave birth to some of the nineteenth century's most psychologically acute fiction. Geoffrey Strickland's Stendhal: The Education of a Novelist chronicles the intellectual and artistic formation of Henri Beyle, tracing the experiences, ideas, and formative encounters that shaped the mind behind masterworks such as The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Drawing on a rich command of French cultural and literary history, Strickland presents a rigorous and illuminating account of how Stendhal absorbed the contradictions of his era — Napoleonic ambition, Romantic sensibility, and Enlightenment rationalism — and transmuted them into a singular novelistic vision. Strickland argues with precision and scholarly authority that Stendhal's genius cannot be separated from his relentless self-education, his voracious reading, and his deeply ambivalent relationship with the society he both scorned and immortalised. The work sits confidently at the intersection of biography and literary criticism, offering readers not merely a portrait of a man, but an anatomy of the creative intelligence itself. Published by Cambridge University Press, this study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand why Stendhal remains one of the most modern — and most misunderstood — of all the great novelists. What does it truly mean to be educated by life, by books, and by failure? Strickland's answer is as surprising as it is compelling.
Author: Geoffrey Strickland
Format: Paperback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in the history of European literature are as paradoxical and fascinating as Stendhal — the soldier-turned-novelist whose fierce intellect and emotional intensity gave birth to some of the nineteenth century's most psychologically acute fiction. Geoffrey Strickland's Stendhal: The Education of a Novelist chronicles the intellectual and artistic formation of Henri Beyle, tracing the experiences, ideas, and formative encounters that shaped the mind behind masterworks such as The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Drawing on a rich command of French cultural and literary history, Strickland presents a rigorous and illuminating account of how Stendhal absorbed the contradictions of his era — Napoleonic ambition, Romantic sensibility, and Enlightenment rationalism — and transmuted them into a singular novelistic vision. Strickland argues with precision and scholarly authority that Stendhal's genius cannot be separated from his relentless self-education, his voracious reading, and his deeply ambivalent relationship with the society he both scorned and immortalised. The work sits confidently at the intersection of biography and literary criticism, offering readers not merely a portrait of a man, but an anatomy of the creative intelligence itself. Published by Cambridge University Press, this study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand why Stendhal remains one of the most modern — and most misunderstood — of all the great novelists. What does it truly mean to be educated by life, by books, and by failure? Strickland's answer is as surprising as it is compelling.