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by Lloyd C. Parks,Donald M. Frame,Stendhal

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  • ISBN: 0451517938
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Lloyd C. Parks,Donald M. Frame,Stendhal
  • Subcategory: Classics
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Signet Classics (July 1, 1970)
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Stendhal (Author), Lloyd C. In January 1983, as now in January 2008, reading The Red and the Black, I am astounded with the author's ability to move smoothly from the character's interior thoughts into action or landscape while encompassing his characters in their political/social matrix. Whether in a high-society drawing room or in the stillness of night, Stendhal gave his work movement, dynamism.

Series: Signet Classics. Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages. Publisher: Signet (June 6, 2006).

Donald M. Frame was Moore Professor of French at Columbia University and an acclaimed scholar and translator of French literature. Among his notable works of translation are The Complete Essays of Montaigne, The Complete Works of Rabelais, and the Signet Classics Tartuffe & Other Plays and Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories. Virginia Scott is Professor Emerita in the Department of Theater of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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Set in a provincial French town and in Paris, The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a handsome and brilliant young tutor who is both hero and villain. Cold, opportunistic, and uncompromising with others?including his influential mistress?he follows his lust for power and wealth. At the same time, he is tortured by his uncontrollable passions, and by the military and religious forces?the enigmatic ?Red and ?Black ?that dominate French society in the years following the Revolution.

A CHRONICLE OF 1830 Stendhal. A new translation by Burton Raffel Introduction by Diane Johnson Notes by James Madden. The epigraphs placed by Stendhal before each of the book’s many chapters, until the dramatic final chapters (which have been given no epigraphs), are frequently, deliberately, and notoriously unreliable. 4 Many were written by Stendhal himself, and ascribed ironically to. 3 (translated from Le Rouge et Le Noir, vol.

Her eloquence went so far that it rankled with them. Watch out for that young man, who has so much energy,' exclaimed her brother. Every time, gentlemen, every time it's fear of ridicule, the monster which unfortunately died in 1816

Manufacturer: Signet Classics Release date: 1 July 1970 ISBN-10 : 0451517938 ISBN-13: 9780451517937.

Manufacturer: Signet Classics Release date: 1 July 1970 ISBN-10 : 0451517938 ISBN-13: 9780451517937.

Stendhal: The Complete Novels and Novellas (Book House).

During the Bourbon Restoration, Julien Sorel disregards all moral codes as he attempts to accumulate power
Reviews about The Red and the Black (Signet Classics) (7):
Windbearer
Stendhal concludes this tale with a dedication: TO THE HAPPY FEW. After we read about Julien Sorel, the protagonist, and the people he encounters, it is an apt way to finish the book because what is missing from the story is happiness. The few times it happens, it is always conditional on something else. Even when Julien experiences love, he is overwhelmed by feelings of triumph, not passion.

Because this classic was written in 1830, today’s readers can be forgiven if some of the plot lines, psychological exposition, obvious use of foreshadowing and characters seem a bit familiar. It is easy to envision a young Theodore Dreiser, Erich Maria Remarque, Saul Bellow or Willa Cather holed up in a corner devouring every word as it sowed the seeds for their writing (I found so many parallels with An American Tragedy and Augie March). Stendhal’s story delves deeply into a particular society in a unique period of history. Julien indeed feels a bit lost; he would rather have been marching with his hero Napoleon in an earlier time. At times it seems tedious, which Stendhal comically acknowledges: “The total boredom of the life led by Julien, without real interests, will no doubt be shared by the reader. These are the flatlands of our journey.”

Yet the journey takes us to a conclusion that has a lasting effect. I doubt it can be forgotten by anyone once read. Like training for a long race, it makes all the toil that came before it more enjoyable and relevant. I can better understand why, in life, there are but a happy few.
blac wolf
This novel had been on my "to-read" list for a long time and now I've read it i'm appalled that I didn't read it sooner. The biting criticism and satire of society and its hypocrisy is still relevant today.
The plot follows a young man who wants more from life than being a peasant. He educates himself and comes to the attention of the local church hierarchy. He furthers his education and gains a position in a middling household as a tutor to the children of a local somebody. The envy he feels and the derision and contempt he is treated with conspire to push his ambition further to ruinous heights. He commits adultery and causes scandal eventually ending in murder.
One feels sorry for him as a victim of society's class divisions and rules yet at the same time he brings his tragedy on himself. It is almost Shakespearean in its scale.
Highly recommended for all lovers of quality literature.
Yozshubei
This novel has everything: political intrigue, the psychological detail of detective work, the ambiguity of love and romance; it's a comedy of manners, but also a saga of helplessness and tragedy, incisive social commentary. Published in 1830, The Red and The Black, is timeless: its relevance to contemporary Westernized or Americanized, bureaucratic, and capitalist-developed nations is both a condemnation and a triumph.

The Red and the Black first caught my attention 25 years ago in January 1983; a stack of copies were set out on a table in the Tattered Cover Bookshop, Denver (then on 1st Avenue in the Cherry Creek area). At that time, the Penguin edition was a new translation to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the author, Henri-Marie Beyle, January 23, 1783. I don't know how or why I decided to buy a copy; maybe it had something to do with the brief review on the back cover, which was perhaps then as it is now: "Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins." Maybe I saw something of Julien in myself, or maybe like Mathilde de la Mole, I was looking for a life outside the script dictated by parents and society, or trying to find a world beyond materialism and utilitarianism, something inspirational and possibly Romantic. It was with this novel that I first realized that a writer could communicate intimately across centuries; I fell in love with Stendhal. I wanted to know about his life. He wrote with integrity; he wrote what he knew to be true about life, and he did not let the marketplace dictate what he should write. Beyle was a human being first, then a writer.

In January 1983, as now in January 2008, reading The Red and the Black, I am astounded with the author's ability to move smoothly from the character's interior thoughts into action or landscape while encompassing his characters in their political/social matrix. Whether in a high-society drawing room or in the stillness of night, Stendhal gave his work movement, dynamism. There is something uncanny about the author's ability to draw characters like Madame de Renal and her husband, a small-town merchant, politician, religious hypocrite. It is the Renals of the world who have the power to destroy the Romantically inspired Juliens and Mathildes, and yet a market-driven nation doesn't seem to function without the Renals. An unusual but appropriate companion reading to Stendhal's work might be Tocqueville's Democracy in America; volume one published in 1835.
Risinal
This book reads like a Rolls Royce on a newly paved road. This book could very well be among the top five novels ever written, right alongside that of Homer's Odyssey. I checked "some sexual content", but mind you, there is nothing vulgar or an attempt to titillate that I speak of, but only because the subject of adult escapades is brought into mention, and is relative to the story line.
Delan
Since the former reviewers have praised the story better than I could, I will limit myself to pointing out that, currently, the prices for the leather bound editions are scandalously low; for future reference I would consider anything under $20/volume to be unusually low for Franklin/Easton Press editions.

It's curious how certain famous novels command higher prices than others in these leather bound editions; military history, perhaps because of its obscurity, raises Thucydides and Caesar to great hights, while Machiavelli's Prince can be had reasonably; Hemmingway commands a far higher price than Melville. Mark Twain is cheap. Stendhal's The Red and the Black is, I believe, dramatically undervalued at this time.

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