- Young men, Fiction, Social life and customs, Italy, fiction
Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Stendhal
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 510
- Publisher
- Liveright, GREGAL EDITORIAL ( TERRACEL, Tatran
- Editions
- 554
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, tur, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9782080700261
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“On May 15, 1796, General Bonaparte entered Milan at the head of that young army which had lately crossed the Lodi bridge and taught the world that after so many centuries Caesar and Alexander had a successor.”
Stendhal était le pseudonyme de l'écrivain français du XIXe siècle Marie-Henri Beyle. Reconnu pour son analyse fine de la psychologie de ses personnages, il est considéré comme l'un des premiers et des plus importants représentants du réalisme dans ses deux romans, *Le Rouge et le Noir* (1830) et *La Chartreuse de Parme* (1839). ---------- Stendhal was the pseudonym of the 19th-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels *Le Rouge et le Noir* (The Red and the Black, 1830) and *La Chartreuse de Parme* (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).
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