Stendhal

This is a book about the life and work of a singular writer, an author well—known for his biographies and travel writing but most famous for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. As a child, Stendhal witnessed the unfolding of the French Revolution; as a young man, he served Napoleon first as a soldier and then as an administrator; and as a middle—aged man, he made it his task not to pursue his career, but instead to take as much paid leave as possible in order to ...