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Italian Chronicles
Stendhal
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Description for Italian Chronicles
Paperback. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 38. .
Nineteenth-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, is one of the earliest leading practitioners of realism, his stories filled with sharp analyses of his characters' psychology. This translation of Stendhal's Chroniques italiennes is a collection of nine tales written between 1829 and 1840, many of which were published only after his death. Together these collected tales reveal a great novelist working with highly dramatic subject matter to forge a vision of life lived at its most intense.The setting for these tales is a romanticized Italy, a place Stendhal viewed as unpolluted by bourgeois inhibitions and ... Read more
Nineteenth-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, is one of the earliest leading practitioners of realism, his stories filled with sharp analyses of his characters' psychology. This translation of Stendhal's Chroniques italiennes is a collection of nine tales written between 1829 and 1840, many of which were published only after his death. Together these collected tales reveal a great novelist working with highly dramatic subject matter to forge a vision of life lived at its most intense.The setting for these tales is a romanticized Italy, a place Stendhal viewed as unpolluted by bourgeois inhibitions and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517900113
SKU
V9781517900113
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Ref
99-1
About Stendhal
Stendhal, the pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), is best known for his major novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. He was a prolific writer in many genres, including novellas and tales. Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas. He is the translator of Jules Barbey ... Read more
Reviews for Italian Chronicles
Italian Chronicles remains rugged rather than polished in MacKenzie's arch rendering. But as the author insists, the intensity of these reimagined Italian lovers, fighters, and plotters is best captured bluntly. -PopMatters Italian Chronicles nevertheless throws down a timely challenge to our plague of political correctness, that grimly self-inflicted version of what he called `popery'. -London Review ... Read more