Stendhal

Le roman s'ouvre avec un Avertissement au statut trouble: le narrateur du roman y explique que l'histoire qu'il conte lui a t relat e par le neveu d'un chanoine, le chanoine Borda, qui est un personnage du roman (il appara t au chapitre V du livre I). Cet Avertissement n'est pas du ressort de l'auteur: il suit le titre du roman, il y est donc int gr . La Chartreuse d bute ainsi sous les auspices les plus ironiques, l'auteur feignant d' crire un avertissement qui lui viterait des ennuis politiques ou judiciaires pour le contenu de l'oeuvre, mais, en attribuant cet avertissement son narrateur, il brouille toutes les pistes, commencer par le statut du narrateur, mais aussi les pistes spatio-temporelles.

Nineteenth-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, is one of the earliest leading practitioners of realism, his stories filled with sharp analyses of his characters psychology. This translation of Stendhals Chroniques italiennes is a collection of nine tales written between 1829 and 1840, many of which were published only after his death. Together these collected tales reveal a great novelist working with highly dramatic subject matter to forge a vision of life lived at its most intense. The setting for these tales is a romanticized Italy, a place Stendhal viewed as unpolluted by bourgeois inhibitions and conformism. From the hothouse atmosphere of aristocratic convents to the horrors of the Cenci family, the tales in Italian Chronicles all feature passionate, transgressive characters engaged in la chasse au bonheur-the quest for happiness. Most of the tragic, violent tales are based on historical events, with Stendhal using history to validate his characters extreme behaviors as they battle literal and figurative oppression and try to break through to freedom. Complete with revenge, bloody daggers, poisonings, and thick-walled nunneries, this new translation of Italian Chronicles includes four never-before-translated stories and a fascinating introduction detailing the origins of the book. It is sure to gratify established Stendhal fans as well as readers new to the writer.

En un aserradero perdido en los bosques del Franco Condado, un joven seminarista despreciado por su ruda familia, lleno de sue os y ambiciones, lee un libro. Poco sospecha que su vida est a punto de dar un giro decisivo y que su entrada como preceptor en casa de monsieur de R nal ser el comienzo de su apertura al amor, a la vida y, finalmente, al crimen. En esta novela, inspirada en un hecho real, su joven e inolvidable protagonista, Juli n Sorel. Plebeyo enamorado y soberbio, rebelde e ingenuo, se ver sometido a la cruel piedra de toque que le ofrece un mundo dominado por las jerarqu as, el dinero y el clero.

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career takes him into the heart of glamorous Parisian society, along the way conquering the gentle, married Madame de R nal, and the haughty Mathilde. But then Julien commits an unexpected, devastating crime - and brings about his own downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature.

Rojo y Negro (Le Rouge et le Noir) es una novela de Stendhal, publicada a mediados de noviembre de 1830. La trama se desarrolla en la Francia del siglo XIX durante la d cada de los treinta, y se articula en torno a las ambiciones de un joven para elevarse sobre la pobreza de su nacimiento. El t tulo del libro podr a aludir a los colores de los uniformes del ej rcito (rojo) y de los sacerdotes (negro). La obra se juzga como una de las mejores de la narrativa francesa, ejemplo de novela psicol gica; influy a muchos escritores del realismo, en particular a Le n Tolst i, y ya en el siglo XX a Andr Gide.

Vanina Vanini, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Roman aristocrat, Don Asdrubale Vanini, is sought after by all the young princes of Rome, but refuses them all, for of "the same reason] that led Sulla to abdicate: her contempt for the Romans." When she notices that her usually carefree father is taking pains to lock up one room in his palace, and that a window in that room that was closed when she left is open, she begins to investigate.