Word: stendhal
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...diamonds in this filth" has given rise to another assumption that Frank would like to refute: "One often reads that, after a certain point, the distinction between right and wrong began to blur for Dostoevsky himself, and that he came to admire criminals for their 'strength' (as Stendhal had done earlier and Nietzsche was to do later)." Frank's narrative and evidence prove that Dostoevsky's long exile made him a fierce patriot and moralist, insistent that individual acts incur inescapable responsibility. It is only selected Western eyes that have seen the experimenting murderer Raskolnikov...
...quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here; the top ten scores are erased each week. No Walter Mitty could emerge from this stultifying fantasy world. As Stendhal said, "One can acquire everything in solitude except character...
...these observations lack the polish of La Rochefoucauld or Stendhal, they serve the author's high purpose. Singled Out is not, after all, a pillow book. It is a guide for the perplexed, who are warned away from useless rage and grief, and humanely advised to "behave with a certain kindness, civility and tact, to ease one another's passage through this changeable and occasionally brutal world." Such counsel may not be quoted in the Playboy Philosophy, but it ought to be singled out for inclusion with every marriage license - and separation paper...
That, too, was an adversary pursuit. Advice to William Faulkner, 1947: "Why do you want to fight Dostoevsky in your first fight? Beat Turgenieff . . . Then try and take Stendhal. . . But don't fight with the poor pathological characters of our time (we won't name...
McCarthy's collection of Northcliffe Lectures from University College in London, can be read in two ways. One is as pure literary criticism, as a reinterpretation of Stendhal and Balzac. She writes with assurance and insight of the 19th century novel, of George Eliot's "homely English novel," of the literary use of Napoleon as the personification of genius, of Les Miserables and Jean Valjean's conscience as a dialogue. Her writing is spirited but there are grounds for disagreement, such as her contention that the fiction of Conrad "went so far in' the direction of brevity and concentration that...