The life of Henry Brulard (Penguin classics) - Softcover

Stendhal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140442901 ISBN 13: 9780140442908

Publisher: Penguin, 1973

Synopsis

Stendhal (1783-1842), the pen name of Henri Marie Beyle, was born into a prosperous family in Grenoble. At sixteen he set out for Paris, intending to pursue a career as an engineer, but instead enlisted in Napoleon's Army. Stendhal took part in campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia, and Austria, and then, after Napoleon's fall from power, settled in Milan, where he wrote books on art and music. Expelled from Italy for political reasons in 1821, he returned to Paris; following the 1830 revolution, he secured the position, which he was to hold for the rest of his life, of French Consul to Civitavecchia. Stendhal's great novels The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) were largely ignored during his lifetime, and many of his works remained unfinished and were published only posthumously. Among his most important books are On Love, Lucien Leuwen, The Memoirs of an Egotist, and The Life of Henry Brulard.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

Review:

Unfinished autobiography by Stendhal, which he began writing in November 1835 and abandoned in March 1836. The scribbled manuscript, including the author's sketches and diagrams, was deciphered and published as Vie de Henry Brulard in 1890, 48 years after its author's death. The work is a masterpiece of ironic self-searching and self-creation, in which the memories of childhood are closely interwoven with the liberating joy of writing. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140442901
• ISBN 13: 9780140442908
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400