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The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and ...
1 gen 1973 · "The Life of Henry Brulard" is quirky, blunt, funny and, above all, honest. Stendhal wrote this over the winter of 1835-36 and it's not a polished work by any means, that only adds to its charm. As already noted by other reviewers, this is a very modern book: Stendhal doesn't pull any punches when it comes to his feelings about family members and friends.
- Stendhal
23 ago 2016 · The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and ...
- Stendhal
This is a telling insight into the times in which Stendhal lived and it includes criticism of the bourgeois vanity and hypocrisy of France in the early nineteenth century.
Summary: Stendhal draws an unforgettable picture of his boyhood in Grenoble, with the mother whom he adored and the father whose bourgeois meanness and cowardice he despised, Grandfather Gagnon, that delightful eighteenth century rationalist, and of Abbe Raillanne who was for him the archetype of all tyrants and hypocrites; of his youthful enthusiasm and loves, his hates and ambitions ...
The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and ...
