Work
Stendhal
Overview
Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: , US: , French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".
Stendhal is also known for De l'amour, his work on "passionate love" in which the concept of "crystallization" was invented. The book was mostly ignored after publishing, but has been lauded posthumously as one of the first "modern" attempts at understanding love. Sharon Brehm, a president of the APA, has called Stendhal "a first-rate psychologist before the official term was coined".
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Philosophers who discussed Stendhal
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- René Girard
- Joseph de Maistre
- Marquis de Sade
- Denis Diderot
- Allan Bloom
- Albert Camus
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy
- Alain (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Giorgio Vasari
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Florence
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Love
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Liberalism
- Hippolyte Taine
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Bologna
- Irony
- Paris
- Rome
- Romanticism
- Kingdom of France
- The New York Review of Books
- Thomas Mann
- Venice
- William Shakespeare
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Milan
- London Review of Books
- Émile Zola
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of love.