Biography of Stendhal -- Plot summary of The red and the black -- List of characters in The red and the black -- Critical views on The red and the black -- Stendhal comments on the novel -- Auerbach on the development of realism -- Lampedusa on the...
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Biography of Stendhal -- Plot summary of The red and the black -- List of characters in The red and the black -- Critical views on The red and the black -- Stendhal comments on the novel -- Auerbach on the development of realism -- Lampedusa on the novel's controversial ending -- Martineau on the probability of Julien's crime -- Beauvoir on Stendhal's portrayal of women -- Blin on the elements of realism -- Howe on the political backgrounds of the novel -- Adams on Julien's parentage -- Levin on realism and romance -- Brombert on Julien's self-consciousness -- Wood on Julien's fear of self-knowledge -- Miller on Julien's motives for murder -- Brooks on paternity and authority -- Mauldon on the epistolary tradition -- Prendergast on the practice of recitation -- Plot summary of The charterhouse of Parma -- List of characters in The charterhouse of Parma -- Critical views on The charterhouse of Parma -- Balzac on the novel's virtures and flaws -- Faguet on the relation between Fabrisio and Julien -- Lukács on the romanticism of Stendhal's heroes -- Richard on heroism and the privileged moment -- Adams on Fabrizio's transformation in prison -- Starobinski on the theme of imprisonment -- Genette on the unity of Stendhal's oeuvre -- Brombert on the Waterloo episode -- Bersani on the representation of happiness -- Wood on history and romance -- Finch on the representation of love -- Barthes on speechlessness and myth -- Howard on Ellipsis in the novel -- Bloom on Stendhal's influences. Each new volume is a biographical and critical review of one of the world's most important writers with expert analysis by Harold Bloom
