Stendhal: The Red and the Black

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Stendhal: The Red and the Black is written by Stirling Haig and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521349826 (ISBN 10) and 9780521349826 (ISBN 13).

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.