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...Alex Weintraub Abstract In On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Friedrich Nietzsche misquotes Stendhal’s definition of beauty. Beauty is not, as the German philosopher claims, “a promise of happiness ” (72). Rather, Stendhal proposes in a footnote to his book De l’amour (1822)—in a chapter entitled...

...Andrew Counter Stendhal . Journaux et papiers. Volume I: 1797–1804 . Eds. Cécile Meynard , Hélène de Jacquelot , and Marie-Rose Corredor . Grenoble : Ellug , 2013 . Pp. 690 . Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 BOOK REVIEWS 4°1 long de...

.... Elle n'en constitue pas moins ce que Ie jeune Leautaud aura eu de meilleur dans une jeunesse devastee par tous les abandons, au-dela de l'imaginable. On peut rever a ces conversations interminables de tout jeunes gens, se raccompagnant dans la nuit parisienne, focalisees sur Stendhal plus que sur...

... a l'aune de cette pensee-la, mais qu'il faut reconnaitre l'etonnant portrait critique qu'il brosse du capitalisme conquerant et de ses "eaux glacees". II invite ainsi a distinguer Ie discours et les textes qui Ie debordent, comme il faudra Ie faire pour lui-meme. Stendhal disseque Au debut des annees 50...

... part on his preferences in terms of English and especially French writers.) The authors for whom he reserves special disdain are: Balzac, Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Gorky, Mann, Faulkner, Gide, James, Lawrence, Sartre. It is also true that he expressed dislike for both Plato and Aristotle, so we know...

... and shifting or unreliable, Mathias deftly shows that Sand s work participates in and troub­ les issues of sight, mimesis, and repre­sen­ta­tion in literary realism as charted in the novels of the movement s most recognized contributors, Balzac, Stendhal, and Flaubert. Mathias argues that Sand s work...

.... " In some cases, studies of individual authors provide the basis for a more general reflection on the nature and stakes of genetic criticism. Jacques Neefs, for example, compares the very different attitudes displayed by three writers (Chateaubriand, Montaigne and Stendhal) toward their own manuscripts...

... was handwritten proved hazardous. Once, he lost his briefcase on the streets of New York, and the entire set of notes for a graduate course was lost along with it. Of course, there was no backup on disk. No matter. The Stendhal seminar suddenly became something else, and none of the graduate students was heard...

... react to these, and how the novels model this encounter for their readers. She uses three closely read and densely argued case studies from the 1830s to do so: Balzac’s novella La Fille aux yeux d’or , Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir , and George Sand’s Indiana . In each of these, realism’s promise...

... is replete with tables listing all the possible human personalities and the various combinations in which they might be most dramatically productive, the one personality missing from these pages is Henri Beyle's. At some future point, we know, that absence will be covered by a persona: Stendhal. Until...

...). Universidad de Extremadura, 2017. Gutierrez Pedreiro, Daniel. Cuerpo en ruinas. Beda, 2017. H. Saito et al., eds. Revue des Amis de Ronsard. Société des Amis de Ronsard du Japon, 2017. Hamm, Jean-J­ acques. Approches de Stendhal. Classiques Garnier, 2018. Higashi, Alejandro, ed. Romances nueuamente sacados de...

... Stendhal-, et la musique de Wagner qu'il avoue tant avoir appreciee, nour- riront ses recits quand l'instituteur Louis Poirier deviendra l'ecrivain Julien Gracq, en 1938, lors de la parution d'Au Chateau d'Argol. De plus, ces entre- atiens permettent au lecteur d'explorer Gracq travers ses ouvrages...

...!. Ses premiers ecrivains preferes-Jules Verne, Edgar Poe, et Stendhal-, et la musique de Wagner qu'il avoue tant avoir appreciee, nour- riront ses recits quand l'instituteur Louis Poirier deviendra l'ecrivain Julien Gracq, en 1938, lors de la parution d'Au Chateau d'Argol. De plus, ces entre- atiens...

... à la gauche. Finalement, les hésitations face à l engagement relèvent d une dernière contradiction. Lorsque Thibaudet, dans un article célèbre, plaide en faveur d une science et d un art qui ne soient pas « mobilisables9 », il s oppose à Maurras qui prétend plier la leçon de Stendhal aux exigences du...

..., Diderot, Madame Roland, Stendhal, and Madame Vigée-Lebrun was to engage in a thrilling intellectual exchange. She remained one of my staunchest supporters until I left Columbia in 1992 to accept a ­tenure-­track position at NYU, and she would often thereafter still call on me to serve on thesis committees...

... collaborateurs signent normalement plus d'un chapitre). Ce qui fait de la lecture de ces quatre cents pages un authentique et fructueux plaisir. (CLAUDIE BERNARD, New York University) Stendhal. Journaux et papiers. Volume I: 1797-1804. Eds. Cecile Meynard, Helene de Jacquelot, and Marie-Rose Corredor. Grenoble...

... pursued an independent career as a s­ elf-t­aught, ­self-­supporting painter and as an exile wandering on her own in a Europe torn by revolution and war (202). She also reminds us that, before proclaiming the superiority of the novel over the theater, Stendhal flirted with the idea of becoming...

... not just build upon itself, but also steadily eliminates anything that is not acquisition. Fin­ ally, it represents enrichissement as an end that explic­itly illuminates its own perpetual insufficiency. If, as Stendhal famously described, the novel is a mirror carried along a road, then Bel-­Ami...

... a pris deux directions, parfois conjointes en un seul ecrivain (Balzac, Hugo, Nerval), parfois disjointes (Chateaubriand et Nodier contre Stendhal) : celle d'une volonte d'embrasser cette totalite au-dela des frontieres du visible, et celIe d'un desir d'epouser la 'courbe' du reel, y compris dans ses...

... des autres champs du savoir pour l'etudier per se, comme ont pu Ie faire Stendhal ou Flaubert. Zola n'envisage les enjeux socio-economiques, dans la preparation des volumes des Rougon-Macquart, que sous l'espece de vastes « questionsl », or traiter la « question sociale » adans Germinal ne se limite...