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...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...
LUCIEN LEUWEN (BOOK ONE: THE GREEN HUNTSMAN) (388 pp.) - Henri Beyle [Stendhal]-Translated by Louise Varése-New Directions...
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...
Surface Scraping. The Green Huntsman is the account of what happens to a -wealthy young Parisian of republican sympathies and aristocratic tastes during a tour as a second lieutenant of lancers in the provincial city of Nancy. From one of Stendhal's many points of view, the book is a simple daguerreotype of provincial French society of the 18305. A tilt of his head and the author's all-but-invisible monocle glitters in mockery of that society. Another glance flickers derisively over the monarchists; the republicans are next, and so on to the army, the middle class...
Slowly it grows on the reader that Stendhal, like a careful appraiser, is quietly scraping a little surface off everyone in sight, revealing the true metal beneath. Yet as the book advances, Stendhal is more than a carping social critic. He is an ironist; and above all he is a novelist using irony to tell a love story, which is both a tragic and a comic...