Overview
Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle, 1783--1842), the author of two of France's great novels of the post-Napoleon Restoration---The Red And The Black (1830) and The Charterhouse Of Parma (1839)--- once wrote that his ideal readers would be born in the twentieth century. The modern spirit that runs through Stendhal's writing is one of the many themes explored in this insightful, comprehensive analysis of Stendhal's work.
