Stendhal Memoirs of an Egotist Paperback Book

This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the chatter about his private life between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. As well as Beyle the clairvoyant selfinvestigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenthcentury logic. MarieHenri Beyle betterknown by his pen name, Stendhal was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism. | Stendhal Memoirs of an Egotist Paperback Book