Who is Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: , US: ; French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' "Beylism".Life
Born in Grenoble, Isère, he was an unhappy child, disliking his "unimaginative" father and mourning his mother, whom he passionately loved, and who died when he was seven. He spent "the happiest years of h...
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- This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
- The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
- The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
- Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
- Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Ulstergazette: stendhal festival is back.
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