Word: stendhal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...story of Lucien in politics is told in The Telegraph, part two of Lucien Leuwen, the unfinished "third masterpiece" of French Novelist Stendhal. With last spring's publication of part one, The Green Huntsman (TIME, June 26), Stendhal's story is now available in English for the first time...
...object of Stendhal's satire is the cheap-jack kingery of Louis Philippe-that "crowned calculating machine"-and the belowstairs thimblerigging of the corrupt, bureaucrazed regime through which he misgoverned France...
...scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
Lucien quits politics and goes back to the girl he left in Book One, but since Stendhal did not finish the novel, Lucien does not quite reach...