Product Description: This collection of 12 essays written in French and English honours Victor Brombert, the humanist, thinker and scholar who taught for many years at Yale and Princeton Universities. The subjects range broadly over the literature, music and paintings of France, Russia, Italy, and Germany...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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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 army, journalist, opera-lover, salon dandy and traveller in Italy and Restoration France, and highlights the constant inter-penetration of personal, documentary, and fictional elements in Stendhal's writings. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Haig, Stirling