Ebook {Epub PDF} The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Enhance your purchase. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe). With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe. The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the s, the close of the stifling reactionary period of /5(32).  · Stendhal's The Red and the Black is, I believe, dramatically undervalued at this time. Read more. 3 people found this helpful. Helpful. Report abuse. Ivo. out of 5 stars Nicely bounded edition. Reviewed in the United States on Novem. Verified Purchase. It has the author's complete text. The translation is quite close to the /5(22). The Red and the Black (in French, Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIX siècle) is an two-volume historical novel by Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by the pen name Stendhal. The Red and the Black follows the rise and fall of Julien Sorel, a bright and ambitious, but in many ways naïve, young man of lowly birth, who resolves to work his way up in society – a difficult thing to do in the highly stratified .

The Red and the Black: Directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe. With Carole Bouquet, Kim Rossi Stuart, Judith Godrèche, Claude Rich. In , Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children. Stendhal's writing "The Red and the Black" is based on a homicide that occurred in , known as the "Baird Murder". Baird is the son of a horseshoe maker in the country, weak and clever, and learns from the local priest in the church. Later, after being introduced by the priest in the church, he became the tutor of Mr. Michele's family. The Red and the Black. M. de Rênal, the mayor of the provincial town Verrières, hires Julien Sorel to be his children's tutor. Julien is only a carpenter's son, but dreams of following in the footsteps of his hero, Napoleon. However, in Julien's time, men gain power in the Church and not in the army. Even though he is training to become a.

Stendhal is the pen-name of Marie-Henri Beyle ( – ), a 19th-century French writer and novelist, best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, ) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, ). Stendhal is considered by many scholars to the "father" of the psychological novel, being one of the. Le Rouge et le Noir (French pronunciation: [lə ʁuʒ e l(ə) nwaʁ]; meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy. The Red and the Black (Stendhal): An Analysis. The Red and the Black is one of the most important pieces of French literature, and perhaps of European culture in general. The book portrays post-reformation France in a lively, intelligent and daring fashion; its intention is to expose the hypocrisy of society. From its onset, Stendhal considered The Red and the Black a ‘mirror of France in ’ – an interesting enterprise, even if not rare in the literary scene.