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Stendhal: The Red and the Black by Stirling Haig

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Part of Landmarks Of World Literature series

Summary

This study places the novel, first published in 1830, in the context of its time and highlights the interpretration of the personal and the fictional in Stendhal's writing. The realism of the novel is derived from an incorporation of history and legal reportage.

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Stendhal: The Red and the Black by Stirling Haig

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.

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"..a concise yet perspicacious treatment of the most important features of the novel." Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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ISBN 13 9780521349826
ISBN 10 0521349826
Title Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Author Stirling Haig
Series Landmarks Of World Literature
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1989-06-22
Number of pages 120
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