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Stendhal: The Red and the Black
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Stendhal: The Red and the Black Hardcover - 1989

by Stirling Haig


From the publisher

Stendhal's great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In this introductory study, Stirling Haig shows how this realism derives from the incorporation of both history and legal reportage into the novel, and how it combines autobiography with mimesis. Professor Haig locates the novel in the context of Stendhal's own experiences as a Commissariat officer in the Napoleonic army, journalist, opera-lover, salon dandy and traveller in Italy and Restoration France, and highlights the constant inter-penetration of personal, documentary, and fictional elements in Stendhal's writings.

First line

Henri Beyle, whom the world knows under the most celebrated of his multiple pseudonyms, Stendhal, is the author of a landmark of European literary realism, The Red and the Black.

Details

  • Title Stendhal: The Red and the Black
  • Author Stirling Haig
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition Ha
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Date July 28, 1989
  • ISBN 9780521341899 / 0521341892
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.55 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 1.40 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Stendhal
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88039787
  • Dewey Decimal Code 843.7