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...complex, contradictory personality he undertook to commit to paper and one that would later appear in various guises in his masterpieces The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma and Lucien Leuwen. The cold analyst ("Outside geometry, there's but a single manner of reasoning, that of facts") was balanced by the man of passionate emotions ("I had possibly the most violent burst of passion I've ever experienced . . . The passion . . . was ambition ... I felt myself capable of the greatest crimes and infamies"). The would-be cynic ("I've got to attack every woman I meet...
...Beyle-Stendhal, that kind of playacting was how men of character faced the facts of life. It is a key to his,thought. He hated hypocrisy, and so did his principal literary heroes, Julien Sorel. the ambitious provincial, Lucien Leuwen, the morose bourgeois, Fabrizio del Dongo, the romantic idealist. But to all of them and to all the young men who set out to conquer the world, Stendhal's message was plain: be insincere. It is one of the piquant paradoxes of the diary that Beyle offers the advice in all sincerity...
...Telegraph, by Stendhal. Book Two of Stendhal's "third masterpiece," Lucien Leuwen; a savage and witty satire on the bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe (TIME...
...Telegraph, by Stendhal. Book Two of Stendhal's "third masterpiece," Lucien Leuwen; a savage and witty satire on the bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe (TIME...
...Telegraph, by Stendhal. Book Two of Stendhal's "third masterpiece," Lucien Leuwen; a savage and witty satire on the bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe (TIME...