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Molière Jugé par Stendhal (Classic Reprint)

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Molière's works were translated into English prose by John Ozell in 1714, [27] but the first complete version in English, by Baker and Miller in 1739, remained "influential" and was long reprinted. The story centres on a carpenter’s son, Julien Sorel, a sensitive and intelligent but extremely ambitious youth who, after seeing no road to power in the military after Napoleon’s fall, endeavours to make his mark in the church. Works [ edit ] The second volume of the 1831 edition of The Red and the Black, considered to be Stendhal's most notable and well-known work.

cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link) Since Stendhal had lived and traveled extensively in Germany, it is of course also possible that he in fact pronounced his name as the German city [ˈʃtɛndaːl] using /ɛn/ instead of /ɛ̃/ (and perhaps also with /ʃ/ instead of /s/) and that some French speakers approximated this but that most used one of the two common French pronunciations of the spelling -en- ( [ɑ̃] and [ɛ̃]). Stendhal's brief memoir, Souvenirs d'Égotisme ( Memoirs of an Egotist), was published posthumously in 1892.But, such as he was, he offered himself to the moment; circumstances seized him, tossed him about, and laid upon him a unique and unexpected destiny; they formed him so that he was compelled to come to terms with reality in a way which no one had done before him.

The risky move paid off and Molière was asked to produce twelve more comédies-ballets before his death. His genuine empathy towards women is evident in his books; Simone de Beauvoir spoke highly of him in The Second Sex. Julien Sorel is a new character for a new age, in which the "natural" aristocracy has broken down, and is in the process of being replaced by a new elite who idealize Napoleon Bonaparte and succeed based on their skill and cunning.The novelist Honoré de Balzac, in a famous article on The Charterhouse of Parma published in La Revue parisienne in 1840, was the only one to recognize his genius as a novelist. A plaque on a house in Vilnius where Stendhal stayed in December 1812 during Napoleon's retreat from Russia. The society that Octave opposes with such violence is not minutely described by the novelist, therefore the social dimension of the novel is unconvincing.

As he noted in his journal, he was taking iodide of potassium and quicksilver to treat his sexual disease, resulting in swollen armpits, difficulty swallowing, pains in his shrunken testicles, sleeplessness, giddiness, roaring in the ears, racing pulse and "tremors so bad he could scarcely hold a fork or a pen".

Zola concurred with Taine's assessment of Stendhal's skills as a "psychologist", and although emphatic in his praise of Stendhal's psychological accuracy and rejection of convention, he deplored the various implausibilities of the novels and Stendhal's clear authorial intervention. Leaving the Michoud home, Berthet entered a seminary at Belley, from which he was dismissed as undesirable.

On 20 February 1662, Molière married Armande Béjart, whom he believed to be the sister of Madeleine. Racine offered Molière his tragedy Théagène et Chariclée (one of the early works he wrote after he had abandoned his theology studies), but Molière would not perform it, though he encouraged Racine to pursue his artistic career.Stendhal's first literary endeavors were biographies, Vies de Haydn, de Mozart, et de Métastase, written in 1815 in Milan, where he lived as a dilettante, fraternizing with Italian liberals, delighting in Italian art and music. In 1821 the Austrians, who controlled northern Italy at that time, began to put pressure on Stendhal because of his past connections with the French Empire, and ultimately he was forced to flee to Paris to escape persecution. In Auerbach's view, in Stendhal's novels "characters, attitudes, and relationships of the dramatis personæ, then, are very closely connected with contemporary historical circumstances; contemporary political and social conditions are woven into the action in a manner more detailed and more real than had been exhibited in any earlier novel, and indeed in any works of literary art except those expressly purporting to be politico-satirical tracts. This journey or crystallization process (shown above) was detailed by Stendhal on the back of a playing card while speaking to Madame Gherardi, during his trip to the Salzburg salt mine.

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