Stendhal
19th-century French writer
| Date of Birth | : | 23 Jan, 1783 |
| Date of Death | : | 23 Mar, 1842 |
| Place of Birth | : | Grenoble, France |
| Profession | : | Writer |
| Nationality | : | France |
Stendhal pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle was a 19th-century French romantic writer who combined both romantic and realist influences in his work . His best-known novels are Le Rouge et le Noir , Lucien Leuwen and La Chartreuse de Parme , all three of which contain autobiographical elements. The main characters show characteristics of Stendhal himself. His novels are characterized by a rather dry, short style, partly due to the fact that Stendhal was opposed to any form of literary page filling. The realism in Stendhal's novels is therefore not expressed through extensive descriptions as in Honoré de Balzac , but rather in the fact that Stendhal based the basic fact of his story on a true fact (which he labeled "être vrai"). Most novels focus on the theme of love and more specifically the process of falling in love, which he has described as "crystallization".
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
