Stendhal: The Red and the Black

by Stirling Haig

Book Overview

Stendhal's great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In this introductory study, Stirling Haig shows how this realism derives from the incorporation of both history and legal reportage into the novel, and how it combines autobiography with mimesis. Professor Haig locates the novel in the context of Stendhal's own experiences as a Commissariat officer in the Napoleonic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521349826
• ISBN13: 9780521349826
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"