Stendhal
By: Jonathan Keates.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Stendhal, 1783-1842.; Novelists, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
Description: Henri Marie Beyle, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the man we know as Stendhal, ranks with Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Baudelaire as a nineteenth-century French immortal. Yet on the night of 22 March, 1842, no one noticed his untimely death in Paris.

Jonathan Keates's contagiously readable new biography of this great romantic takes us through his career in Napoleon's armies (he watched Moscow burn in 1812), his many love affairs, his diplomatic postings, and his multiple personas: as a would-be dandy, as a man of the world, as the polemicist extraordinaire, as the theorist of love.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-[447]) and index.