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...LUCIEN LEUWEN (Book Two: THE TELEGRAPH-415 pp.)-Stendhal-New Directions...
...will be a rogue!" cried Lucien Leuwen. No one was alarmed. It was a commonplace among French liberals in the 1830s, and especially among very young liberals, for disappointments in love to take this form. Lucien's heart had in fact been thoroughly shattered in Book One of a Stendhal novel, and now in Book Two the young man was determined to live without a heart. His father, a banker, was delighted, and chevied the boy into politics...
...LUCIEN LEUWEN (BOOK ONE: THE GREEN HUNTSMAN) (388 pp.) - Henri Beyle [Stendhal]-Translated by Louise Varése-New Directions...
...garrison town, Lucien falls in love with a great-eyed, high-minded young widow of noble birth named Bathilde de Chasteller. Bathilde soon loves him too, but is too proud to fall into the arms which Lucien is too shy to open. At the end, a rabble of nobility, jealous of Lucien's success with the wealthy widow they want for themselves, conspires to mount a gruesome charade. It convinces Lucien that his innocent lady love has had an illegitimate child by another man. Heartbroken, he rushes back to Paris, utterly unaware that he has been japed...
Henri Beyle, who used the nom de plume of Stendhal, wrote Lucien Leuwen between 1834 and 1836, while he was French consul (for the regime of King Louis Philippe) at Civitavecchia, Italy. Since the novel is, in parts, a Louis-Philippie and a mock of constitutional monarchy ("a halt in the mud"), it could not safely be published while the author was "eating off the Budget." Stendhal therefore was in no hurry to get on with it, and died before he finished the job. First published as a whole in 1894, five decades after Stendhal's death. Lucien...