Stendhal

The Red and the Black - Unabridged (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Theis, Kevin / Übersetzer: Samuel, Horace B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Red and the Black" (subtitled "A Chronicle of the 19th Century") is the epic novel from writer Stendahl that tells the story of a young, poor Frenchman growing up in the post-Napoleonic era as he strives to improve his social condition and make something of himself during this tumultuous and politically charged world.

The title refers - among other things - to the struggle between the military (the red) and the clergy (the black) as our protagonist - Julien Sorel - struggles to get ahead, first in the church and then as a protege to a French Marquis embroiled in various political intrigues. In addition to Julien's professional adventures, we also learn of his romantic entanglements and the perils to which they lead.

Long hailed as one of the world's first "psychological novels," Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" has come to be revered as one of the world's great novels. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format (with footnotes), as translated from the French by Horace B. Samuel, M.A.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 594
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798892822176
• Artikelnr.: 75509769

Autorenporträt

Stendhal is the pen name of French writer Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842), best known for his novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). An early practitioner of realism and a self-proclaimed "egotist," Stendhal never enjoyed great literary success during his lifetime, but his novels - particularly "The Red and the Black" are now considered among the finest piece of French fiction ever written.Born into a bourgeois family in Grenoble, Isère, Beyle rejected the boring, provincial life. Growing up during the ascension of Napoleon, Beyle became a government auditor for the government before joining Napoleon's army and witnessed the burning of Moscow during the 1812 French invasion of Russia. Part of the massive, disastrous retreat of Napoleon's forces in 1813, Beyle arrived back in Paris, but fled the following year to Milan after Napoleon fell from power. He lived in Italy for most of his remaining years. Continuing to work for the government, Beyle now embarked on a writing career and his books are suffused with his new embrace of liberalism. He wrote under many pseudonyms, but his best known is, of course, Stendhal, under which he wrote "The Red and the Black." Suffering from numerous health conditions towards the end of his life (including a number of sexually transmitted diseases), Beyle died of a seizer in Paris in 1842 at the age of fifty-nine. His works were rediscovered in the 20th century and Beyle/Stendhal now enjoys a lofty position in the pantheon of French writers.