Word: stendhal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only too clearly that he is incapable of enjoying the beautiful things he has gathered around...
This Life) will suffer no disgrace by comparison with Chekhov or Stendhal for a hurting sense of human relationships...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Speakers: Eugene O'Neill Jr., Rutgers Philosophy Professor Houston Peterson; Author John Erskine...
More Industry Than Skill. In the rich field of literary biography, Americans had a thin year. In Leo Tolstoy, Columbia Professor Ernest J. Simmons made use of much new material, and his book seemed likely to become a standard text. Matthew Josephson's Stendhal was the most thorough work in English on the French novelist, but its qualities arose more out of industriousness than skill...
...monarchist, classicist France, a few young, unknown romantics such as Victor Hugo took fire from De I'Amour. But it received only two reviews-both of which were written secretly by Stendhal himself. In Germany, the aging Goethe read History of Painting in Italy and Rome, Naples and Florence-the enthusiastic studies of Italian painters and passions signed "M. de Stendhal, former cavalry officer," and remarked appreciatively, "This man knows how to use others with skill." It was an apt remark, for it was Stendhal's habit to lift his material from others' books and then calmly...