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With Stendhal
Paperback Edition: 1
With Stendhal is a delightful composite portrait of one of the world's great novelists.
Simon Leys introduces and translates into English for the first time three linked pieces- the recollections of Stendhal's famous friend Prosper Merimee, the impressions of novelist George Sand, and a recently discovered piece by Stendhal himself, a whimsical list of the supernatural powers he wished he possessed.
Together they illuminate the life and mind of a colourful hyper-romantic, given to duelling, bantering and falling in love, for whom boredom was a sin and hypocracy a crime.
Publisher : Black Inc.
Publication date : 2010-06-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure, Literature & Literary Studies, Biography & True Stories, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Literature: History & Criticism, Biography: General